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...every other Administration since Eisenhower, this sort of issue was the special province of the President's National Security Adviser. "We found that giving a reconstruction program over to one government department simply didn't work," says James Dobbins, a former NSC staff member who worked on Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo (and on Afghanistan, for the Bush Administration). "The Pentagon never wanted any part of peacekeeping or nation building, and it wouldn't cooperate when State tried to run the reconstruction programs. The orders had to come directly from the White House, from the President's foreign-policy coordinator...
...Colorado native who speaks Russian and Croatian, he studied classics at Colorado College and is writing his master’s thesis on post-war reconstruction in Bosnia...
After his first assignment to Geibelstadt, Germany, Adamouski went on two deployments to Bosnia and one to Albania during the Kosovo conflict, after which he returned to Ft. Rutger for advanced training...
...Iraq and by paying off Russia the amount of money owed by Saddam—he could have prevented the U.N. coup. With no major world leaders challenging Bush, we would hear much less chatter from the protest types, mirroring the silence surrounding America’s interventions in Bosnia and Afghanistan...
...prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant--with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal...