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Bosnia: The Great Betrayal
Plunging forward into pitch-black night, their faces lashed by
March 26, 1998
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Bosnia: Breaking the Machine
On May 22, 1995, fifteen months after Bosnian Serbs—bowing to an ultimatum from Western leaders infuriated by the televised carnage of sixty-eight dismembered bodies at Sarajevo’s Markela marketplace—had withdrawn their tanks and cannons and mortars from the mountains and ridges above the city, heavily armed Serb soldiers in camouflage uniforms forced their way into a United Nations “weapons collection point”…
February 19, 1998
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Bosnia: The Turning Point
Early one February afternoon in 1994, people in Sarajevo shed their heavy coats and hats and poured out into streets and markets, allowing themselves to forget, in the bright warming sun, that from artillery bunkers and snipers’ nests dug into hills and mountains above the city hunters stared down, tracking their prey.
February 5, 1998
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Marooned in the Cold War: An Exchange between Mark Danner and George F. Kennan, Strobe Talbott and Lee H. Hamilton
Our differences regarding enlargement do indeed remain deep, even after you were generous enough to teach me a number of things in your well-crafted letter — in particular, what you call the
January 2, 1998
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Marooned In the Cold War: An Exchange between Mark Danner and Richard C. Holbrooke
I thought Mark Danner’s essay, “Marooned in the Cold War,” made a strong case against NATO
January 1, 1998
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Marooned In the Cold War
Three years have passed since I stood in a tiny market in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through a chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped about the blood-slick earth.
December 31, 1997
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Clinton, The UN, and the Bosnia Disaster
In the bitter wind and cold of late December 1995, shortly before the coming of Orthodox Christmas, the Serb fathers of Sarajevo began trudging toward the graveyards.
December 18, 1997
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America and the Bosnia Genocide
To the hundreds of millions who first beheld them on their television screens that August day in 1992, the faces staring out from behind barbed wire seemed powerfully familiar.
December 4, 1997
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Still Living in a Cold War World
Three years have passed since I stood in a marketplace in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through the chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped upon the earth.
December 1, 1997
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The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe
Scarcely two years ago, during the sweltering days of July 1995, any citizen of our civilized land could have pressed a button on a remote control and idly gazed, for an instant or an hour, into the jaws of a contemporary Hell.
November 20, 1997
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Iran-Contra in the Light of History (discussant)
I think I’d like to begin by asking about Iran-Contra the question the Jesuits like to ask when they see a difficult problem, which is: What is its quiddity? What is its “whatness”? What separates it from everything else – in particular, from other scandals?
July 17, 1997
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Staying on in El Salvador (Introduction)
Inward-gazing and self-absorbed, Americans tend to learn about the world only during times of crisis.
June 5, 1997