warren christopher went to europe to sell that, and came back with his tail between his legs. it went nowhere. the europeans a said, no, no no, this is a humanitarian mission, we could not do those things by ourselves, we could not activate nato by ourselves we could not bomb by ourselves. so for two years, we were in an extraordinarily frustrating. , we try to have some peace negotiations, but it became more and more -- frustrating period we tried to have a some peace negotiations, but it became more and more frustrating. eventually the president said enough. the president was at a putting green, and a couple of days before jacque chirac, who was a bit of a grandstand or, he said he was going to have a rapid force, and that was a very bad french accent, and i'm going to send 10,000 soldiers anyplace if there is a threat in bosnia, it meant nothing. it was just rhetorical. if schrock -- if chirac can do this, why do you give me new ideas? well it with parallel to that, and we were working on a new idea inside the ncs, tony and myself and nancy, and simply basically, it was tha