Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take a position on deploying groundtroops in the ongoing Balkan conflict, butquestioned whether President Clinton had outlinedhis goals in the Kosovo crisis clearly enough...
...first hand what happens in a humanitarian effort [and] find out more about the international human law surrounding the Kosovo conflict," Conway says. "It's something that really doesn't come through in class...
Besides the anniversary of the '69 takeover, there is an additional irony of timing associated with the current debate--the ongoing conflict in the Balkans. Harvard students of all political persuasions have rallied behind NATO's efforts to protect Kosovar Albanians, and there have even been calls for the use of ground troops. It seems that when it suits our agendas we have no trouble calling on soldiers to place themselves in harms way. Our moral outrage is apparently not so great that we balk at employing the military instrumentally. Soldiers can die for us, but they just...
...reality is that violent conflict is an unpleasant affair, and, in order to operate effectively, our armed forces cannot always be on the vanguard of progressive social trends. "Don't ask, don't tell" may be offensive to some, but events in Kosovo should serve as a stark reminder that our military is a force for great good in the world and is worthy of our utmost respect. It is past time that students on this campus grew up and accepted the fact that the enormous responsibilities of some groups in this world mean that they cannot always perfectly conform...
...speech earlier yesterday, however, Oberlin College Assistant Professor of Sociology Veljko Vujacic argued that the conflict reaches farther back, perhaps as far back as the middle ages. Since that time, ethnic Albanians--who are predominantly Muslims--or ethnic Serbs, primarily orthodox Christians, have alternately held control of the province, usually oppressing the other group...