Napisao sam '93. jer je tada počeo Clintonov mandat. Bilo bi glupo teretiti ga što nije postupio po ovlaštenju senata prije nego je postao predsjednik, zar ne.jeza u ledja wrote: ↑11/11/2020 05:50 U jednom postu napises 93-a, u drugom 95-a, pa sad 92-a.
Clinton je udario veto na taj zakon iz 95-e. Nije bio primoran ni na sta. A 92-e se odnosilo prvenstveno na odobrenje sredstava za pruzanje vojne pomoci. Sto se tice embarga, Senat se tu moze samo pitati o odnosu Amerike i Bosne (tj. prodaji oruzja), ne o odlukama americke administracije o vanjskoj politici (podrzavanju embarga generalno).
Bidenov amandman bio je eksplicitan i po pitanju embarga. O tome govori sam Biden na videu koji sam ranije postavio. I da, Clinton jeste udario veto na Dole - Libermanov zakon koji je senat izglasao dvotrećinskom većinom. Što opet govori o Clintonu koji je do kraja prkosio naporima probosanskih orijentisanih senatora.
Evo i nekoliko odlomaka iz Bidenove autobiografije glede Clintona:
“That calculation obviously tormented the Clinton administration. Vice President Al Gore was pushing the president hard to take action, but without much success. When the Serbs shelled sixty-eight Sarajevans to death at a marketplace in February 1994, Clinton condemned the “murder of innocents,” but we did nothing. By then the administration had publicly ruled out any American military intervention. When Serb shells killed seventy-one people in Tuzla and other U.N.-designated “safe areas,” we still did nothing. When I visited the Balkans again in June 1994, Sarajevo was in worse shape.”
“The same day Clinton disappointed me by echoing the old Bush administration sentiment: “We can’t act alone. We should not act alone…. We want to try to confine that conflict so it doesn’t spread into other places and involve other countries, like Albania, Greece, and Turkey, which could have the impact of undermining peace in Europe and the growth and stability of democracies there…. The United States cannot go in there and get involved in a civil war.”
P.S. Al' najjače mi je kad Bod Dole govori o Clintonu kao čovjeku bez karaktera. Svi znamo na šta misli.“Carter, Reagan, and Clinton had all been shy about taking on big issues in foreign policy unless and until forced by circumstances. ”