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...both a familiar kind of bloodletting and a new kind. Security arrangements like NATO were of no use. They had been fashioned to keep East and West from resorting to long-range missiles, and were helpless at first to contain the face-to-face hatreds of Bosnia and Kosovo. Then there was Rwanda and Zaire, where each new episode of civil war and ethnic bloodlust created a small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations, the ones who didn...
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Things could be a lot worse in Kosovo, and they were a year ago. That's the nub of NATO secretary general George Robertson's assessment, "Kosovo One Year On: Achievement and Challenge," published Tuesday in a preemptive strike against the growing chorus of criticism of the operation's achievements a year after the alliance began bombing Yugoslavia. Robertson argues that NATO lost only two planes and no pilots, inflicted minimal civilian casualties, and succeeded in driving out Serb forces and returning refugees to their homes. Last June there were 50 deaths each week in Kosovo, he notes, while today...
...Pressure in Washington has begun to mount for a cap on U.S. involvement, as the potential for violent outbreaks grows in the divided town of Mitrovica and in ethnic-Albanian communities just across the border in southern Serbia. That's made Kosovo one of the few areas in which the U.S. is enthusiastic about the planned European Union military force, which Washington hopes will eventually take over a mission that may well require a permanent commitment. "It's perfectly fair for Robertson to say that the region is more stable now that there are thousands upon thousands of NATO troops...
Also on Wednesday, the Post quoted a senior Pentagon official who said that the U.S. might have to fight against the KPF if it continues its efforts in Kosovo...