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...other Administration since Eisenhower, this sort of issue was the special province of the President's National Security Adviser. "We found that giving a reconstruction program over to one government department simply didn't work," says James Dobbins, a former NSC staff member who worked on Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo (and on Afghanistan, for the Bush Administration). "The Pentagon never wanted any part of peacekeeping or nation building, and it wouldn't cooperate when State tried to run the reconstruction programs. The orders had to come directly from the White House, from the President's foreign-policy coordinator, the National...
After his first assignment to Geibelstadt, Germany, Adamouski went on two deployments to Bosnia and one to Albania during the Kosovo conflict, after which he returned to Ft. Rutger for advanced training...
...been so buffered by the carefully demarcated rules of television that we lack the intellectual equipment to deal with chaos (even the events of 9/11--talk about shock and awe!--were carefully groomed. The most shocking images, the bodies falling from the sky, were generally kept out of view). Afghanistan, Kosovo, the first Gulf War--each a video game played from 15,000 ft.--only added to our delusion of control. We are not so lucky this time. This is an actual war; there are unplanned events: an unruly enemy, uncooperative allies, magisterial dust storms. That doesn't necessarily mean...
...Afghanistan, Kosovo, the first Gulf War - each a video game played from 15,000 ft. - only added to our delusion of control. We are not so lucky this time. This is an actual war; there are unplanned events: an unruly enemy, uncooperative allies, magisterial dust storms. That doesn't necessarily mean the war is going badly. For all we know, it may be going splendidly; as I write this, Saddam Hussein may be throwing in the towel...
There is recent precedent for this. In 1999 the U.S. knew that Russia would veto any resolution authorizing the use of force against Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo, and so the Security Council was skipped. But quiet negotiations with the Russians--before the first bombs fell--produced an agreement that established the U.N. as the immediate source of humanitarian aid and civil authority after the war (the Russians even agreed to be part of the peacekeeping force). And now the U.N. is quietly planning humanitarian aid for post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply...