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This chapter focuses on how the massacre of 8,700 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica in June in 1995 caused a major change in the Clinton administration's Bosnia policy. It examines Clinton's shift from restraint towards limited intervention through Operation Deliberate Force, showing how the massacre at Srebrenica rekindled narratives likening the atrocities to the Holocaust. Images of the cruelty, along with the vision of dead and dying Bosnians gave these narratives tremendous power. Such principled ideas were driven by Madeline Albright, Anthony Lake, and in particular Al Gore's powerful, symbolic appeal: ‘What am I supposed to tell [my daughter]?’ if the US were to maintain a position of indifference. The massacre made it clear that US policy towards Bosnia had not only become ineffective but was doing significant damage to the administration's credibility — undermining their capacity to manage other foreign policy issues. The fall of Srebrenica served to reframe the debate on Bosnia by providing a moment of crisis and spurring principled interpretations yielding normative displacement which would override more refined cognitive interpretations. |
