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...some uncomfortable choices over the eventual fate of Slobodan Milosevic. According to French reports Thursday, Milosevic has signaled that he's prepared to accept the NATO-Russia peace deal, but only if he's guaranteed immunity from prosecution as a war criminal. "Milosevic imposed the same condition on the Bosnia peace agreement," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He has a lot of blood on his hands and he knows that Western intelligence has more than enough evidence to indict him at the Hague war crimes tribunal...
This is where my past and Goodman's intersect. I have dodged mortar shells in Bosnia and once kissed a photo of Saddam Hussein on orders from Iraqi soldiers, but never have I been more terrified than on a lovely day in May 1988, with Goodman at my side...
...revitalization of such an old topic of debate reflects in part the anxiety in this country over the often ineffective and sometimes disastrous American involvement in the genocidal civil wars of Bosnia and Kosovo. Such wars imply an overarching instability not just in the world but in "civilized," predominantly white Europe, with which many Americans feel a strong affinity. These wars have also shown that the U.S. can't fix everything that goes awry in the world, and in fact, often makes the situation worse. While this is a blow to our national pride and foreign policy, nothing compares...
...believe there is a high probabilitythat external air power can deal effectively andconclusively with a failed state. That's thesituation we faced in Bosnia and Kosovo and earlierin Vietnam," he said...
...evening began with two 20-minute speeches by Charles Crawford, a Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WFCIA) fellow and former British ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Col. Michael W. Alvis, another WFCIA fellow and former military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army...