Senator Bob Dole, who has understood the Bosnian tragedy from the start, could make a real difference on that issue.

But surely no reasonable person can doubt that the West should have stopped Serbian aggression at the beginning, before the Bosnian tragedy.

The same point was made recently by The Economist of London in an extended treatment of the Bosnian tragedy.

Although the legacy of Munich in 1938 is often invoked in discussing the Bosnian tragedy, the conflict is a civil war.

If her advice had been followed in the first place, the aggression would have ended before the Bosnian tragedy.

This does not mean the United States should give up efforts to end the Bosnian tragedy.

His opposition was crucial in President Clinton's decision to abandon a campaign pledge and stay out of the Bosnian tragedy.

And now he has all but washed his hands of the Bosnian tragedy.

As for the United States, the Bush Administration has done its best to keep the Bosnian tragedy at arm's length.

Commissioner Gradin had hoped to learn from the experience of the Bosnian tragedy, and quite rightly so.