Quotes about Balkan War

Dorde Balasevic

From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people..

Sarajevo had been one of the most ethnically integrated cities in the Balkans where Serbs, Croats, and Muslims had been at war with each other throughout the former Yugoslavia.

James Baker

We don’t have a dog in that fight.

Baker was out of office, and the Clinton Administration successfully intervened.

Ljubco Georgievski

We should see the [Kosovo] war as a valuable opportunity. Never before have the Europeans or the Americans taken us so seriously.

Michael Jackson

I’m not starting World War III for you.

Tony Blair

This is the first war we fought in terms of our values, not for our interests.

Stjepan Mesic

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are, however, cases in which, while our own interests are not greatly involved, strong appeal is made to our sympathies.... in extreme cases action may be justifiable and proper. What form the action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the case; that is, upon the degree of the atrocity and upon our power to remedy it.

The possibility of intervention in the affairs of other counties even if there is no U. S. national interest involved, was not new when the George W. Bush administration sent troops to Somalia and Bill Clinton bombed Serbia. There were appeals made “to our sympathies” and there were serious atrocities. But these modern Presidents were just following the policy clearly stated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.

Warren Beatty

Is it our party's position that Americans are rich enough to police the world but not rich enough to take care of our own?

Balkan War Quotes