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DIED. IBRAHIM RUGOVA, 61, President of U.N.-administered Kosovo and a leader of the decades-long quest by the province's ethnic Albanian majority for independence from Serbia; of lung cancer; in Pristina...
...send 200 observers, and the Carter Center and National Democratic Institute will send 100 observers. The latter delegation will be led personally by former President Jimmy Carter. The IFES mission will not end on election day. Blanc, who has worked on policy and electoral issues in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, said that his group is committed to working with the Palestinian Authority well into the future. “First, we’ll be here for the counting and tabulation of the ballots which is often one of the flashpoints in a transitioning democracy,” Blanc said...
...memories of Europe's dark 20th century meant that there was little support, in any European country, for the use of force to impose a solution there. It was U.S. political will and air strikes from U.S. warplanes that ended the wars in Bosnia in 1995 and in Kosovo four years later. The European powers placed their hopes for peacemaking in the Balkans on diplomacy and the promise of commercial benefits if the protagonists ceased fighting. That tactic failed (just as it appears to have failed in dissuading Iran from going nuclear). Sometimes only war brings peace. Sometimes, of course...
Anyone who condones torture simultaneously rejects the ideological values that define the United States. Systematically depriving people of their rights by electrocution, rape, or water-boarding contradicts the principles of this country. The war in Iraq, like the intervention in Kosovo, was supposed to reflect the U.S.’ absolute commitment to freedom, democracy, and human rights. To use Bush’s words, “America is a strong nation and honorable in the use of our strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers. Americans are a free people...
...ceremony in 1985 as Environment Minister in the state of Hesse. His appointment as German Foreign Minister, the highest post held by a Green politician, lent Germany a distinctive presence on the international stage, one enhanced when the former anti-militarist turned humanitarian interventionist backed German troop participation in Kosovo and later questioned Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. ("Excuse me, I am not convinced," he told the U.S. Defense Secretary about claims that weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.) Schröder was not an active '68er. But he too absorbed...