Byron Dorgan: “I rise today to support the proposal offered by Senator Mitchell regarding the crisis in Bosnia. As we all know, the war…”

“I rise today to support the proposal offered by Senator Mitchell regarding the crisis in Bosnia. As we all know, the war in Bosnia has become our most perplexing foreign policy challenge. What we first saw as a civil war, we now clearly see as essentially international aggression by one independent nation against another. This aggression has claimed tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than 2 million people. It became clear to me over a year ago that the United States must allow Bosnia to defend itself against this aggression. And I have several times urged the administration to work to lift the embargo. I believed then and I believe now that the United Nations must abandon its pretense of neutrality between the two sides in this conflict. One nation is the aggressor; another nation is on the defensive. One side is killing the other. Our moral duty to lift the embargo is clear. The question then becomes, how best to lift the embargo?”