Word: bosnia
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GRACANICA, Bosnia—Even to me, an unctuous parishioner, making a pilgrimage has always seemed to be a phenomenal waste of time. Upon hearing that the Pope was coming to Bosnia, I was at first apprehensive. The logistics of seeing the Holy Father are not simple, and he had decided to speak in Banja Luka, the capital of the Republika Srpska, a locale markedly hostile to Catholics and Muslims in Bosnia...
...President Bill Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. and then as Secretary of State, she argued that the U.S. was the world's "indispensable nation," its muscle essential to solving humanitarian crises and eradicating their causes, wherever they arose. For their promiscuous deployment of American force in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, she and her boss were much derided. Republicans thought the Clinton Administration frittered away American power in places that weren't worth it, ignoring matters of vital U.S. national interest in favor of a feel-good, bleeding-heart preoccupation with the suffering of those unfortunate to live...
...interest as the lodestar of its policy. The point, as Mandelbaum says, is "not that social work is a bad thing." On the contrary, it can be positively noble in intent and execution. Are we really to say that it was a mistake for the U.S. to intervene in Bosnia and Kosovo (where there was about as much of a direct threat to American interests as there is in Liberia) when, absent such intervention, the wars of the Yugoslav succession could be raging still...
...armed and dangerous, they may resentfully refuse to cooperate with the occupying forces--who will then treat them as if they are armed and dangerous. Already the attacks on Americans mean that some of the lessons of effective peacekeeping--painfully learned during a decade of small wars in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo--cannot be applied. Peacekeepers work best when they move in small groups, mingling with the local population, stopping to drink coffee and share a smoke, listening for that key bit of gossip about where the local party chieftain is hiding. But because the Iraqi opposition is going after...
...next election. That almost certainly means at least three more years of awkward limbo, with Blair unable to anchor his pro-euro sentiments in any specific policy and thwarted in his big ambition to lead Britain into the heart of the Continent. Foreign policy, after controversial interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo paid off, used to be a place where Blair soared, but Iraq is turning it into a millstone. The coalition's quick victory has been eclipsed by the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction, on which he grounded the case for war. Last week his former International...