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On the recordMarch 18, 1998
I think when Americans remember that instability in this area, instability in Europe and particularly in Central Europe, has drawn our Nation into two world wars in this century, then we need to be very, very cautious about any action that we might take at this point to cause hostilities to resume there. We know that in another area of the former Yugoslavia, the Kosovo region, there is a very dangerous situation going on there. Anything that we might do now in a precipitate way I think might bring our allies into a widened conflict, and then the question would be, what does the United States do now that NATO allies are fighting? ... I would certainly concur that the administration has not adequately made the case to the American people about why we are doing what we are doing in the Balkans.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Discussing U.S. military involvement in the Balkans and the implications of instability in Europe.

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