Word: indonesia
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Serbia could disappear tomorrow without the U.S. even noticing. But the U.S. would notice greatly if Indonesia were to disappear. The real reason we stayed our hand and stifled our righteousness there was to make sure that it doesn...
...Indonesia controls the Strait of Malacca. It is the great southern bulwark against the rising Chinese challenge. It has the largest population in the Muslim world and practices a tolerant Islam that we hope will influence its more militant co-religionists...
Moreover, Indonesia faces dismemberment by separatist revolts in several of its 17,000 islands. If we bludgeoned our way into East Timor the way we did Kosovo, we would encourage separatist rebels on Aceh, in West Irian and throughout Indonesia...
...other? The answer has nothing to do with the strategic importance of the victim and everything to do with the strategic importance of the victimizer: Serbia does not count for us. Indonesia does...
...blithely bombed our way into Yugoslavia because the country we needed to bludgeon is of no strategic significance. We did not bomb our way into Indonesia because that country is of immense strategic significance...