Excerpt from a speech in Portsmouth, NH on Dec 7, 1995.

  Let me just close by making an observation about foreign policy
since that is in the news today.  As a general principle America
must keep a presence in Europe and Asia.  We must not the mistake
we made in the twenties and thirties when we turned our backs on
the world and we and the world paid a fearful price for it.
  Out troop strength in Europe and Asia, regardless of what happens
in Bosnia, is overall, a stabilizing influence.  In Asia, for
example, China is now in a military buildup.  Nobody knows where
it's going to lead. But if we're not there, then countries like
Japan are going to say, "If they're defenseless they're going to
have to re-arm."  I don't want that to happen.
  America is a stabilizing influence there.  And the leaders of
Asia will tell you that.  If we're not there, past patterns are
going to emerge, and we're not going to like the results of them. 
  I remember ten years ago, the Chancellor of Germany saying to me,
he said, "Don't leave Europe to its own devices."  
  We must also stay on the cutting edge of technology.  We saw that
in the Gulf War.  
  Let me now make a specific comment about Bosnia.  It's no secret,
I was opposed to the troop deployment in Bosnia.  Now that the
troops are going over there,  I think we're under, we're under an
obligation to rally around them.
  [applause]
  I think that we should ask that two things be done, while our
troops are there to ensure that their mission has a chance of long
term success.  Number one, is that we should arm and train the
Bosnian Muslims.  If we don't, when the troops are withdrawn, the
war will resume, the war will resume.  Moreover, along the same
lines, we should make it clear that we will use NATO air power if
either the Serbs or the Croats decide on a military buildup to
launch a military offensive.
  If we don't take those two steps, what I fear is that when our
troops are withdrawn, someday they will be withdrawn, Bosnia will
suffer the fate that Poland used to suffer.  That is be partitioned
by more powerful neighbors.  Molosovich, the dictator in Belgrade,
has never accepted the idea of a, not having realizing his dream,
which is other people's nightmare, of a greater Serbia.  
  We have Croatia, [inaudible] a month, a few weeks ago his plan
for partitioning Bosnia with the Serbs.  So, do those two things. 
The Bosnia Muslims, know what's at stake, they've been the victims
of aggression.  They've been the victims of ethnic cleansing, the
women have been in the rape camps.  Give them the arms to defend
themselves, so that no uh no side, so that neither of the sides get
the illusion that can achieve a cheap victory.  
  So arm the Bosnian Muslims, provide airpower, there is a
concentration.  And then I think you at least have a chance for
some sort of settlement instead of a re-descent into the kind of
war that we've now just ended.  
  So in closing, on foreign policy, I think that we must not
withdraw from the world.  And we must realize though, ultimately, 
we are only two hundred and seventy million people in a world of
six billion people.  That ultimately our security comes from more
and more people sharing our values of democracy, freedom, belief in
the individual.