Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beleaguered province. "The military isn?t trained to keep the peace when it comes to local-level confrontations between groups of two or three people," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. And with only half of the envisaged peacekeeping complement of 50,000 actually deployed so far, lawlessness and ethnic violence continue to plague the area. So far Annan has collected pledges for 1,900 cops -? including 450 from the U.S. -? but he wants a total force of at least...
...according to the doctrine of the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Colin Powell, America should always go into these conflicts as the biggest, baddest force on the block. Go in to win, Powell said, and know how you're going to get out. These new conflicts--with their delicate ethnic nuances--make that harder. The Marines' mission in Kosovo is more war-as-car-repair, trying to keep both mechanic and customer from killing each other and the car running for at least a while at an acceptable cost...
...west side's Los Angelized sprawl. "It's a place with no edges. It bleeds in and out of industrial and residential developments, and there's a creeping invisibility--an anonymity." The weak sense of community makes the area all the harder to police. And there is ethnic fragmentation as long-established Hispanics see new Mexican immigrants moving in next door, calling south of the border for the relatives and parking the truck on the sidewalk...
...both these things, and all of whom predicted that the Serbs would never cave--are bitter. Slobodan Milosevic betrayed them! Doesn't he watch the Sunday talk shows? Doesn't he know that air power never works? Has he forgotten that he represents a centuries-old tradition of ethnic violence? Where is that quagmire he was supposed to produce...
Faced with the unpleasant choice between acquiescing to ethnic cleansing and paying in American blood to stop it, Bill Clinton characteristically chose "neither"--and characteristically seems to have lucked out. No doubt this is annoying to political opponents and unfriendly commentators who thought they had him in a checkmate. In their annoyance, the critics should at least keep in mind that their country lucked...