by Paul C. Warnke

About the author: Paul C. Warnke, an attorney in Washington, D.C., served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the Johnson administration. He was director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief arms negotiator in the Carter administration.

Where is NATO when we need it? A strong NATO initiative in Bosnia should not be discouraged by defeatist cries that it won’t work and that the NATO allies will be dragged into a quagmire—another Vietnam. The time has come to stop running foreign policy by purported historical analogies. The choice is not between “no more Vietnams” and “no more Munichs.” This is a different situation and it calls for a new approach. It calls for the North Atlantic...