Muslim states committed real peacekeeping troops to Bosnia while Western powers hedged on intervention

Evidence

In July 1993, somewhat to the embarrassment of the West, the OIC offered to provide 18,000 peacekeeping troops to the U.N., the soldiers to come from Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, Tunisia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The United States vetoed Iran, and the Serbs objected vigorously to Turkish troops. The latter nonetheless arrived in Bosnia in the summer of 1994, and by 1995 the U.N. Protection Force of 25,000 troops included 7000 from Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 789

Categorization

• SHARE: Specific detail a colleague following UN peacekeeping troop-contributing countries would appreciate: the US vetoed Iran, and Turkey was the largest single non-European contingent.