EU's enlargement to include ten new member countries, which took place last May, was sold as a golden opportunity to expand a European zone of peace, prosperity and co-operation into the former Soviet block.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

And people who covered that story say that after the arms embargo was instituted it took about a year for a no-fly zone to be instituted, another three years to get everybody to the peace table in Dayton, and that basically this was sort of a model of inaction, not action, by the international community.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

He accused the Obama administration of ruining the atmosphere for peace talks simply by suggesting that the White House may, at some point, consider imposing a no-fly zone.

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