Bosnian Quagmire

Washington, D.C.

AT a luncheon during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in the Netherlands on May 30, one allied minister declared with resignation that “some problems cannot be solved, but have to be endured.” CIA Director John Deutch echoed the sentiment a few days later in remarks at his Amherst College reunion, sighing that the international community had no good alternative but to “continue to muddle through.”

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Peter W. Rodman

Washington, D.C.

AT a luncheon during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in the Netherlands on May 30, one allied minister declared with resignation that “some problems cannot be solved, but have to be endured.” CIA Director John Deutch echoed the sentiment a few days later in remarks at his Amherst College reunion, sighing that the international community had no good alternative but to “continue to muddle through.”