John W. Olver: “The tragedy to me is that the President's initiative at Sarajevo, which so many of us saw as being so very hopeful, that…”

“The tragedy to me is that the President's initiative at Sarajevo, which so many of us saw as being so very hopeful, that finally the United Nations and the European Community and we understood and understand that only force, or at least a credible threat of force, a credible threat of force at the very least, would stop the expansion, stop this effort at creating a greater Serbia on the basis of driving out and exterminating whole populations in the neighboring United Nations community states of Croatia and Bosnia. But the Serb insurgents have really shown how little respect they have for even the initiative in Sarajevo. They have held United Nations troops and United Nations peacekeepers hostages there, they have taken back weapons willy-nilly, in essence, as if they were the ones who had control and maybe indeed that is the fact, that they do have control of this situation.”