Susan Molinari: “there has been some concern that, if the United States acts to unilaterally end the arms embargo, then other nations…”

“there has been some concern that, if the United States acts to unilaterally end the arms embargo, then other nations will lift sanctions against other countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Libya. We will not enforce sanctions against North Korea. Let us think about this for a minute. Haiti, Iran, Libya, Iraq, North Korea. Bosnia? What did Bosnia do to get sanctioned along with the rest of those criminal governments? My colleagues, they sought democracy, they sought freedom from communism, hardly a justifiable comparison of nations in our American response. ``Bosnia, trust the United Nations,'' says the Hamilton amendment this time. ``Forget the violated no fly zone; Bosnia, forget the violated ceasefires; Bosnia, forget the bombardment of the safe areas, forget the over 40 broken United Nations resolutions. This time trust the United Nations to defend you as you seek democracy.'' The Hamilton amendment would encourage us all to trust those same U.N. decisionmakers who over 15 months ago promised a war crimes tribunal and to date has not appointed a prosecutor or investigated one case of criminality, not one. I plead with my colleagues and say, ``If you are sickened by seeing footage of 6-year-old children being slaughtered as they sleep, or 72-year-old women who are victims of rapes, and if you do not want to send American troops into Bosnia to end these atrocities, and you can no longer trust the United Nations to do the right thing, there is only one thing left.…”