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...Clinton Legacy: Clinton eventually managed to cajole European NATO allies to act decisively to stop the bloodletting in Bosnia and to drive Yugoslavian troops out of Kosovo. He also funneled support to the Serbian opposition parties that helped bring Milosevic down. But the equilibrium he?s leaving behind is unstable - five years after the Dayton Accord and 18 months after the Kosovo cease-fire, the region's old enemies show no greater inclination to just get along...
...issue of U.S. troops is much more important than simply what happens in Kosovo or Presevo. If the U.S. pulls out, there would be two consequences: First, Kosovo, but possibly also Bosnia and Macedonia, would plunge into, if not outright war, then at least a permanent state of low-intensity conflict. But even more important for Washington, I don't think the U.S. can pull troops from harm's way in the Balkans and then still demand command and control over NATO troops in Europe. The U.S. would lose its moral claim to maintain the tradition that the commander...
...peacekeeping force in Kosovo, but even if they made up the shortage in troop strength if the U.S. pulled out, the problem is the message it sends. Everyone in the Balkans knows it was U.S. leadership that got NATO involved in the Balkans. The interventions in both Bosnia and Kosovo wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the Americans, and if the U.S. pulls out its troops, that sends a powerful message...
...family and modern anxiety with dark humor. Chris Ware has the best design sense in comics, using everything from schematic diagrams to 1930s lettering, all at the service of the story and characters. "Safe Area Gorazde" brings journalism and comics together in an unforgettable portrait of the war in Bosnia. Sacco's detailed, realistic drawing style provides the pictures that had previously only resided in people's memories. At last we meet the complicated human beings, whose personal history is really the only one that matters, behind the "Balkan Crisis...
...Europeans have been talking about coordinating a defense structure that's not dependent on NATO since the early '90s, as they moved to strengthen the European Union and give it more of the characteristics of a state. And when Bosnia blew up, and then Kosovo last year, the Europeans were faced with the undeniable fact that they didn't have the muscle to intervene, and had to turn to the U.S. on a purely European matter. It was at a summit held last summer, in the immediate wake of Kosovo, that they set their requirements as a force...