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...Klerk focused his speech on the theoretical problems of cutural strife within nations, drawing examples from current international crisises such as Bosnia and the "often-ignored" civil war in Sudan...
...Iraq doesn?t produce some testy moments, the Balkans will. Europeans raged at campaign hints from Bush and Rice that they would order a pullout of American forces from nato?s peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Now the Administration is backing off?Rice has said that ?it is important to review American deployments? but that ?any review will take place with allies.? Still, the U.S. will likely insist that its troop numbers be reduced?even though the U.S. accounts for less than 20% of the total peacekeeping force in the Balkans?and will move toward a burden-sharing arrangement...
...charm offensive (invite them to the ranch?) will help, but it won?t heal the political rifts waiting to crack open. Here is a short list, which together constitute your second, more serious problem: National Missile Defense (NMD), U.S. troops in Bosnia, aid to Russia, Iran-Iraq sanctions plus sundry trade conflicts (e.g., over subsidies for the new monster Airbus that may do in Boeing's 747). These items galvanize the worst fears of the Europeans. They have a single name: American unilateralism. Nor should their alarm be shrugged off as routine babble of the smaller denizens of the international...
...Take U.S. troops in Bosnia. You have just reaffirmed "our intention" to hand over peacekeeping to the Europeans. A U.S. pullout will hardly increase Europe's trust in Washington. Or enhance U.S. leadership. And what about the next ethnic cleansing? Do you really want to liberate the perpetrators from the threat of American retribution...
...death from various cancers of at least 17 soldiers (15 of them from leukemia) from European armies since being deployed on peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo has raised an outcry in Europe, and some of their governments believe the cause of their illnesses may lie in the ammunition used by NATO against Serbian armor and artillery positions in both regions. Not so, say the U.S., Britain and NATO headquarters, citing extensive scientific research by the World Health Organization, among others, to support their assertion that there's no link between depleted-uranium ammunition and the illnesses that killed...