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Old 27th Aug 2014, 14:34
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minigundiplomat
 
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I say this because one of my key frustrations with the Bush(43) administration is that Bosnia was still ongoing when we went into Iraq in 2003, and it was bloody obvious to me that the lessons of the ongoing in Bosnia seemed to not be folded into the plan for Iraq ... I think because it was "Clintons' war" and they didn't like Bill Clinton.
Your view of history seems to differ from my recollection; the problems with Bosnia stemmed from the fact that Bill Clinton wouldn't get involved in Bosnia and it was only after he'd zipped up the Lewinsky saga (pun intended) and there had been several dozen massacres and atrocities committed that the Dayton Accord was agreed and the US put boots on the ground in the Balkans as part of NATO.

For 2 years or so, Bill Clinton avoided any attempt to deploy ground troops and US involvement was nearly entirely aerial.

Therefore, any reference to the Balkans as 'Clintons War' would be a little disingenuous.
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