21.   The seasoned commanders said they are anti-Taliban, but they also vehemently oppose the US bombing campaign and the use of American ground troops.

22.   About the only thing the United States refused to do was commit ground troops.

23.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his foreign minister refused Saturday to rule out a contribution of German ground troops to an eventual international peace-implementation force for Bosnia.

24.   Clinton still refusing to rule out ground troops.

25.   He pointed to the situation in Bosnia, where the United States contributes its planes and ships, but not ground troops.

26.   He said the United States would be willing to consider providing logistical and transportation support but not U.S. ground troops.

27.   In that case, the United States would have to send thousands of American ground troops to extract the allies, Clinton said.

28.   In that case, the United States would be obliged to send in thousands of American ground troops to help extract the peacekeepers, the president said.

29.   In that case, the United States would be obliged to send up thousands of American ground troops to help extract the peacekeepers, Clinton said.

30.   It would be enforced, Chalabi says, with U.S. bombers, not ground troops.