Mr. Clinton would be in even bigger trouble on Capitol Hill but for his decision to retreat -- at least temporarily -- from the lunacy of inserting several hundred, effectively unarmed U.S. servicemen under U.N. command into the anarchy that is Haiti.
It was suggested the U.N. high command had promised to stop air strikes against the Serb army in return for the release of 370 U.N. soldiers held prisoner -- and Mladic took this as the green light to attack Srebrenica.