John W. Olver: “I am here tonight to speak again about the ongoing tragedy, the ongoing disaster in Bosnia. It was only a couple of days…”

“I am here tonight to speak again about the ongoing tragedy, the ongoing disaster in Bosnia. It was only a couple of days ago that I spoke on this issue. At that time I pointed out and read from an editorial from the Washington Post which was entitled, ``The Bosnia Disaster.'' In the intervening additional 72 hours since that time, I have to say that in 20 years of public life I have never seen the kind of universal condemnation by reporters and editorialists and columnists and humanists and ex-diplomats and historians of a foreign policy as has been heaped on the disaster in Bosnia. The consensus is absolutely overwhelming. By all odds, as one sees what in fact has happened in Bosnia, the condemnation is well justified. I think it is worthwhile going back and looking at how we got to that point, because it is really 3 years of Western policy on the part of the European community and the United Nations and the United States involvement with the United Nations through the United Nations which has been an absolutely spectacular failure leading to this overwhelming human and political disaster that is going to have repercussions for the world for decades.”