Dick Lugar: “I will advocate that the Senate should affirm the McCain resolution. Certainly, we should not table the resolution.…”

“I will advocate that the Senate should affirm the McCain resolution. Certainly, we should not table the resolution. Madam President, a week after the war began, I wrote in the Washington Post: We are losing the war in Kosovo. President Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian Armed Forces are killing Kosovar political leaders, expelling Kosovars from their homes, and causing a flow of refugees into countries with few resources to care for them. The United States and NATO have the capacity to reverse this situation, but this will require presidential leadership and a commitment to taking the hard steps necessary to win. I wrote, additionally, in the same column: President Clinton still has the chance, as our Commander in Chief, to produce victory, even if what he advocated was based on a hopelessly incomplete vision of the end game and a dubious strategy to reach even severely limited aims. Madam President, I wrote that on April 1--a month ago--and the situation is identical to that which I described then. We have an opportunity to win the war.”