Word: kosovo
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...been motivated since he was a student by a deeply held set of moral - indeed religious - beliefs that good should triumph over evil and that the forces of righteousness have an obligation to do what they can to improve the world. That was just as evident in the Kosovo crisis of 1999, when Blair took the lead in advocating military action. In this respect he is very peculiar among today's Europeans, most of whom (with their political leaders) inhabit a postreligious world of moral relativities. Blair's "preachiness" sticks in the gullet of even many Britons who otherwise admire...
...NETHERLANDS Tightening Net Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic surrendered himself to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. Prosecutors have alleged that, as a close associate of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, Milutinovic was responsible for war crimes in Kosovo...
...duties at 10 Downing Street took her further afield—to Brussels to support NATO’s press office during the conflict in Kosovo and into Kosovo itself...
...Capt. Doug Rokke, who headed these operations, said in the same documentary it took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke’s conclusion? “If you can’t clean...
...billion. But the military's precise role in support of the President's wider Wilsonian objectives remains unclear. So far, the Administration seems wedded to the distinctive theory of nation building adopted by the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations in Somalia (disastrously) and in Bosnia and Kosovo (rather more successfully): use American military power, preferably from the air, to effect "regime change" in the nation you want to rebuild. Then pass the buck to someone else, and hope for the best...