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John Kerry: let me just say to my friend that everything he said is correct. Everything he said is correct. I do not argue with it.…

On the recordApril 21, 1994
let me just say to my friend that everything he said is correct. Everything he said is correct. I do not argue with it. His description of the limitations in the gulf is accurate, and he is as knowledgeable as anybody in the U.S. Senate. But here is I think respectfully the distinction. While we may be able to specifically turn the battle at Gorazde by pointing the air strikes at Gorazde, the Serbs have an enormous number of assets in other locations that we are aware of that are not near civilians and that are not part of that battle. I believe that because they are defying their own word, because they are going against their own agreement, because they are violating their own understanding--and the world understands that--and because they are engaging in behavior that is contrary to the rules of warfare, the world will understand if the NATO and U.N. attack targets that are not in the area of Gorazde or of civilians, but which make the price higher. I admit to the Senator that may or may not work. I rather suspect that if the Serbs saw a united determination of the world to make it clear that the United Nations word is not going to be flaunted and that the will of civilized people is not going to be trampled on, I would suspect that they would understand this is a serious measure, that it will cost them dearly, and that it will do what it did at Sarajevo. It worked at Sarajevo.
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing military strategy and the situation in Gorazde during Senate floor debate.

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