American pro-Bosnian policy could not be explained as anti-Iranian civilizational realpolitik

Evidence

One possibility is that it really was not an anomaly, but rather carefully calculated civilizational realpolitik. By siding with the Bosnians and proposing, unsuccessfully, to end the embargo, the United States was attempting to reduce the influence of fundamentalist Muslim countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia with the previously secular and Europe-oriented Bosnians. If this was the motive, however, why did the United States acquiesce in Iranian and Saudi aid and why did it not push more vigorously to end the embargo which would have legitimized Western aid? Why did not American officials publicly warn of the dangers of Islamist fundamentalism in the Balkans? — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 797

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• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what actually drove US policy toward Bosnia in 1992-95 if neither realpolitik nor the moral narrative fully explains it?