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...regional chaos it set in motion, including what may have been the largest refugee exodus in history. Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into submission again. He went to Bosnia and Kosovo, where words have failed over and again to convey the sheer sadism of what neighbor did to neighbor...
...life. It was both a familiar kind of bloodletting and a new kind. Security arrangements like NATO were of no use. They had been fashioned to keep East and West from resorting to long-range missiles, and were helpless at first to contain the face-to-face hatreds of Bosnia and Kosovo. Then there was Rwanda and Zaire, where each new episode of civil war and ethnic bloodlust created a small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations...
...report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty aim of creating a thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says TIME State Department correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "Although things are certainly immeasurably better now than they were a year ago, the deep-seated political problems are by no means solved...
Nash has extensive experience quelling the recent troubles in former Yugoslavia. He commanded the multinational military force that implemented the Dayton Peace Accords in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina before retiring from the military...
...mean Gore has no principles, only that he won't get into a fight until he thinks he can support those principles with every conceivable footnote. Some of his most conspicuous positions--pushing the Kyoto treaty on global warming, despite near unanimous Senate opposition, or calling for intervention in Bosnia long before it was popular, or expressing the conviction that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military--can be perceived as reflections of his value system, but in each case he also has the filing cabinet to prove it. You don't just have to take...