Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task before NATO is not simple. It must intensify its warfare without tallying high Serb or ethnic Albanian civilian casualties, worsening the refugee flight or shaking jittery public support. Yet it is unthinkable that the alliance should not finish the job it embarked on. NATO would fail history if it left Milosevic in place and the ethnic Albanians in exile...
...kill people." The Pentagon is no longer talking about an "air campaign" of a few brisk weeks but a war of attrition. White House officials now say the air attacks could last another 20--20!--weeks. "We'll continue to degrade his forces, and he'll continue his ethnic cleansing," explains an Air Force officer. "And we'll get back to the negotiating table only after he's finished...
...certainly possible that air power may yet subdue Milosevic--or that he will sue for peace once he has emptied Kosovo of ethnic Albanians. By Friday the White House was cheered that NATO strikes were cutting critical fuel supplies. But perhaps it was always unlikely that one could bomb Milosevic into negotiating an acceptable political solution for Kosovo. Now it looks out of the question. The down-the-middle construct of Rambouillet that retained Serbian sovereignty over the province but gave self-rule to the ethnic Albanians for three years seems dead. No one believes the Kosovars can live with...
Washington insists it has not dropped its opposition to independence for Kosovo, but what else, if the ethnic Albanians ever return, is there? Some in Washington and at NATO talk of making Kosovo into an allied "protectorate" that would require Western troops to escort the Kosovars back and stand guard inside Kosovo's borders for years to come. Yet any new political arrangement butts up against the fact that Milosevic has captured the kingdom. "As much as we wish we could stop him in his tracks," says a senior NATO diplomat, "it's obvious there will have...
After the campaign's first moves, NATO is staring at a very real possibility of humiliation. Milosevic can crow: he has expelled hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians from sacred Serb soil; he has destabilized his Balkan neighbors; he has considering the takeover of Montenegro; he is pushing ahead with plans for a show trial of the three captive American soldiers. Against that, NATO's tally looks meager. And the geopolitical consequences of continuing to bomb are also piling up: deep strains with Russia; the possible chain reaction of instability in Macedonia and Albania; and above all the terrible tide...