Should have anticipated Yugoslav breakup by “waging peace”
Q: Your views on the Balkans and the bombing of Serbia?
A: Our foreign policy is often too little too late, and then too brutal. Everyone could foresee Yugoslavia deteriorating after Tito. We need a policy of “waging peace”
to anticipate problems. And we need a multilateral “peace force” ready to go.
Q: UN or NATO-US or what?
A: With heavy regional content depending on which continent.
Source: National Public Radio, “The Connection”
Jul 11, 2000
Bosnia: Force acceptable to help against mass slaughter
Q: Foreign policy, the Middle East, Bosnia: your general view in that area?
A: Well I think when there’s mass slaughter going on or about to go on, as in some countries, there should be a multinational expeditionary force to help those people.
Burundi is an example.
And second, I think we should be very careful about getting into foreign difficulties, because we’re protecting big business, investments like oil in the Persian Gulf, which led us into that whole morass to begin with.
Source: Interview on “Larry King Live”
Oct 6, 1996
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