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To: Perseverando
Clinton sent American soldiers to fight alongside Bosnian mujahedeen against the Serb Christians in the Bosnia war.

That's news to me. Clinton did send an assessment team to determine how the U.S. could develop a train and equip program for the Bosnian Federation (Bosnian Croats and Bosnian muslims). The Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff refused to send soldiers given the plans to enforce the Dayton Accords. A team of retired army officers were sent instead. I was one of that team.

The plan was forced on Clinton by Senator Bob Dole who believed that the best chance for peace in the Balkans was to ensure military parity between the Serbs and the Croat/Bosniac federation. When I visited the 7th Muslim Brigade in Zenica in November 1994, the White House was very interested what they were doing as no one had seen them or talked to. The article is a pretty accurate of that group. The training program that was executed by contractors. The Army mission in Bosnia was enforcement of the Dayton Accords and did not begin until after the war ended.

My takeaway of my time in Bosnia was that it very hard to find any good guys on any of the sides.

25 posted on 07/03/2015 7:52:21 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316
And my take is that the retired Army officers who took on that role were soulless mercenaries doing it for the money and not for the honor of their uniforms, the righteousness of their cause, not even for pragmatism and certainly not because they were ordered to fight an unjust war.

(One of my very best friends from the army stayed in and finally joined you, in his words "helping the KLA"; Ms. Norton still keeps him on the Christmas card list thinking I'll change my mind...no luck so far.)

29 posted on 07/03/2015 12:16:17 PM PDT by norton
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