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I had stepped into what Dick Holbrooke called “the greatest collective security failure of the West since the 1930s. On May 25, NATO conducted air strikes on the Serb stronghold of Pale, and the Serbs, in retaliation, seized UN peacekeepers and chained them s focus on my most important priorities, rather than on competing stories that, at the least, would divert pub him, unbelieveably, on eighteen felony counts for understating personal expenses to the FBI during his 1993 interview.

He was a bright young progressive who was a member of our Third Way group, as was EU president Romano Prodi. $9 billion request I had already sent to Congress, it amounted to an increase of more than 40 percent in three years. The dual key would prove to be a frustrating impediment to protecting the Bosnians, but it marked another step in the long, tortuous process of moving Europe and the UN to a more aggressive posture. There’s a big difference between being told that you are no good at your job and being told that you’re just no good.