Word: balkanizing
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...these nations can do is hang together--for now. There are hints of cracks to come. Some of the allies are worried that NATO is dangerously remiss in failing to rev up planning for a ground campaign. Still others--recoiling from the live possibility of putting "our boys" on Balkan ground--are pressing for any negotiated way out. And few in the alliance can yet name the specifics of a peace plan: some nations dread the idea of an independent Kosovo; others embrace it. What Clinton and his confreres have left unsettled is just how they intend to fight this...
Every hour of every day, warplanes take off from bases across Europe--and some in the U.S.--bound for Balkan targets. The sweep of weapons is impressive. Not since World War II has the U.S. military hurled three types of heavy bombers--B-1s, B-2s and B-52s--at an enemy. The fleet of 430 allied warplanes that began this war will soon grow to more than 1,000 planes. The escalation will force the Pentagon to call up as many as 33,000 reservists...
...have never been prouder of Bill Clinton and the U.S. military than now, for standing up to Balkan bully Slobodan Milosevic in order to stop the systematic murder of ethnic Albanians [KOSOVO CRISIS, April 5]. After Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews, the West said it would never let such a tragedy occur again. Well now is the time to back up that promise, because it is happening again. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...
...Mostly, though, it appears to be a stunning advance in the shoring up of biases, both benign (one's own views) and noxious (other views). Whether anyone's opinion is changed by the Web is an open question, though of course the same could be said of Balkan politics and air strikes. A six-month debate on an Environmental News Network forum www.enn.com/community/forum) about agribusiness, organic farming and Monsanto's genetic engineering of plants, began in September with sweet reason: "In the U.S. only 10.9% of the average American's income is spent on food. Compare this to Britain...
Drnovsek suggested that his country, which now has a democratic government, a solid economy and is currently applying for membership in the European Union and NATO, might be used as a foil to understand why governments in other Balkan states have failed to remain stable and peaceful...