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...personnel. And in a mean frontier town, a sheriff whose priority is keeping out of harm's way is always in danger of being ineffective - or worse. NATO feared that aggressive peacekeeping and enforcement would provoke attacks on its troops not only in Macedonia but back in Kosovo; by dithering - and legitimizing the rebels by pushing the Macedonian government reluctantly into cease-fire agreements - it has all but ensured the territorial divisions it desperately wanted to prevent...
...three lessons General Wesley Clark says he learned from his experience in Kosovo became policy, modern warfare would become more indiscriminate and ever more lethal [BOOK EXCERPT, June 4]. Clark's first lesson is to "move when a crisis is still ambiguous"--in other words, before any consensus emerges about the nature of the conflict. The second lesson: "Once you cross the threshold for the use of force, use it as decisively as possible." In other words, jump in with both feet and fire away! The third lesson, "continue to strike until the negotiations are successfully concluded," is an argument...
...first Premier to do so in an official capacity. Gerhard SchrOder's government is explicitly committed to the idea that Germany can and should be a "normal" country, not one whose every move is dictated by war guilt. German pilots flew missions during NATO's 1999 war in Kosovo, the first time its armed forces have taken part in offensive actions since 1945. Even in Britain, appeals to the spirit of 1940, which translate into a broad suspicion of Europe, seem to have less power than they once...
...even more so, I think, when the evidence against Milosevic is revealed. The recent discoveries of mass graves, a new one almost every day, here in Serbia have revealed Milosevic's efforts to cover up what happened in Kosovo. And that has helped change attitudes here to examining the past...
...What we have is an unofficial state of war that threatens each and every Albanian citizen," said Nebi Mursali, a prominent Albanian newspaper editor and intellectual. Mursali has already sent his wife and children to the relative safety of Kosovo - as have some 30,000 other ethnic Macedonians. He explains, bluntly: "I don't trust the Slavs...