What was the objective, short-term?
Well, the objective, number one, was to make sure that Mladic understood we were quite serious about attacking safe areas; two, was to get him to clean out the twenty kilometer exclusion zone. Get those weapons out of there. We knew that they were in there. Just get them out, no exceptions. Pull back, get his forces; and essentially understand that the international community basically had it up to here with the Serb military. And safe areas were safe areas, and we were going to take very serious action if he continued to attack. … When you all commenced on the 29th, 30th, the middle of that night, how long was the target list? … Describe it to me, in terms of how long it would take to exhaust that. … When Mike Ryan and I first talked about this, he said, “You know, we could knock this out in about four or five days, if the weather cooperates.” Well, as you might expect, it didn’t cooperate; some of the targets did not get hit the first time. … The bombing stretched out, quite
