Ourpeacekeepers are on the frontlines ofconflict; our mediators bring warriors to the peacetable; our reliefworkersbravetreacherousenvironments to deliver life-saving assistance.
Dispatching Holbrooke was designed, senior administration officials told CNN, to show Moscow that Washington is determined to work through current difficulties and to get the Balkans puzzle to the peacetable.
But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peacetable in exchange for land elsewhere.