Word: kosovo
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...term nation-building was bandied about with more than a hint of sarcasm when President Bush was bashing what he deemed the Clinton administration?s misguided use of the military abroad. And yet, as the President lunched with U.S. peacekeeping troops at Kosovo?s Camp Bondsteel and sought to reassure the world that - contra his campaign rhetoric - the U.S. had no intention of leaving the Balkans before its NATO allies do, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the Bush team has been forced to embrace the very policy of long-term peacekeeping they had been so quick...
...presence of Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue...
...force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds Milosevic responsible for the deportation of 740,000 people and the deaths of at least 340 identified ethnic Albanians. David Scheffer, the former U.S. ambassador for war crimes, says Milosevic will be confronted by "an enormous amount of information" - eyewitness testimony, statements from refugees, and American intelligence reports...
...gathered at the time, partly out of fear of exposing the extent to which Western governments did business with Milosevic to secure his participation in a peace deal. And, Scheffer says, "it might be harder to make the case because of the screen of Bosnian Serb leadership." In Kosovo, "it's a pretty clear case of superior criminal responsibility...
...what is it about Pinter - director (of major productions starring Lauren Bacall and Faye Dunaway), political activist (he campaigned against "NATO machismo" in Kosovo), actor and, of course, playwright - that has touched so many? His plays are not as immediately funny as Alan Ayckbourn's, and you cannot easily sympathize with his invariably damaged, degraded characters as you can with those of, say, Arthur Miller. Pinter is more difficult, in every sense, than his contemporaries, and his rooms are battlegrounds...