John Kerry: “But they have been releasing them in the last few days, Madam President. We seem to have made the point and we seem to…”

“But they have been releasing them in the last few days, Madam President. We seem to have made the point and we seem to be breaking through in the last few days. Now, I cannot deny there is a perfidy that is unacceptable in their actions in Gorazde. It is unacceptable, beyond anybody's standards, to lob mortars and direct artillery shells straight into a hospital. And that is why I think the President should put the bombing on a much shorter fuse. But we should think very carefully about at the very moment that the President is saying I am prepared to bomb, we want to simultaneously take the step unilaterally, unilaterally, to have a greater impact on this. Now, I would say to my colleague, if the United States is truly prepared--and I hope it is and I believe it is--to follow through on this threat of air strikes, and if we are prepared to stay the course, I respectfully submit and I believe that we will change Bosnian Serb behavior. We may not. But if we make it clear that we are responding specifically to their perfidy, specifically to their inhumanity, specifically to their willingness to attack innocent women and children, and to defy the United Nations and NATO and the will of the civilized world, I believe we have the high moral ground and the world will understand our bombings.”