Peter Galbraith is a person that I have admired for years – not least for his work as a Senate aide in the late-1980s when he went to northern Iraq and smuggled out the documents that proved Saddam Hussein's culpability in the gassing of Kurdish civilians.
As ambassador to Croatia during the war in the Balkans in the early-1990s, Peter bucked up the beleaguered Bosnians and Croats by allowing planes carrying weapons to land unimpeded -- reporting that he had "no instructions" to stop the delivery of the urgently needed military kit. This strategy helped to defeat the Serb forces of Slobodan Milosevic in the summer of 1995.
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