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...crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that NATO would risk trying to arrest him. "Western countries were reluctant to allow their troops in Bosnia to act as the Hague Tribunal?s police force, and it?s unlikely that anybody will send commandos to arrest Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are still at large in Bosnia six years after their indictment, despite the presence of NATO peacekeeping...
That was not the only time Gore's pitch for force carried the day. In mid-1995, as a frustrated Clinton agonized over air strikes in Bosnia, Gore described photos of a Srebrenica woman who had hanged herself in despair and how they had haunted Gore's 21-year-old daughter. What Karenna Gore couldn't understand, the Vice President said, was why the U.S. was not doing more. At that moment the decision crystallized to make the U.S. bombing threat a real one. "We've got to try something," the President concluded. Giving war a chance helped push...
These days, Ajeti might have to settle for George Clooney. By all accounts, NATO is doing an impressive job of looking after some 750,000 displaced Kosovars now under the alliance's care in the Serbian border regions of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina: plenty of tents and blankets, food and water, and even battery chargers for cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera...
...early in Clinton's first term, back when she was U.N. ambassador during the first showdown with Serbia over Bosnia, that Albright showed her stripes on foreign policy. At a 1993 meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell--who gave his name to the doctrine that the military should be used only after a clear political goal has been set, and then only with decisive force--she challenged the general: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" As Powell later recalled, "I thought I would have...
...become the world's policeman, but we don't have the will or the military structure to do it right. Nor do we have a rational method of picking where we'll get involved. Give us a clear job to do and we can usually do it--witness Bosnia and Korea. But you have to set priorities. China and Russia are Class A priorities. Kosovo would have been a C. But we made it a test of our credibility...