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...although he won't say so out loud, he's scaled back Bush's assessment of American power. When Bush invaded Iraq, the U.S. was coming off a decade of low-cost military triumphs - from Panama in 1989 to the Gulf War in 1991 to Bosnia in 1995 to Kosovo in 1999. And back then, Afghanistan looked like a triumph too. It was easy to believe that the U.S. military - through a combination of force and threats of force - could prevail over a slew of hostile regimes and movements at the same time. And it was easy to believe that...
BILL CLINTON, on his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's response to an 11-ft. (3.6 m) bronze statue of the former U.S. President unveiled in Pristina, Kosovo, on Nov. 1. It honors his role in pushing for NATO intervention in 1999, which stopped Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians...
Strolling through downtown Geneva on a cool October evening, Nadia, a 23-year-old Kosovo native, shakes her head at a provocative poster depicting a burqa-clad woman in front of a thicket of missile-shaped minarets rising out of a Swiss flag. Below the flag, the word stop is written in big, bold letters. "As a Muslim woman, I am offended by this image," says Nadia, who requested that her last name not be used. "It presents Islam as a danger to Swiss society...
...crimes for 12 years, Karadzic flouted authority once again. Because he is representing himself, no lawyer was present to explain Karadzic's absence. The judge adjourned for the day but ruled that the case would continue whether Karadzic showed up or not. (See pictures of Belgrade riots after Kosovo declared independence...
...fear to pursue his vision of an ethnically segregated Bosnia." He also quoted the former Bosnian Serb leader as saying before the war that he would turn the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into a "black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die." (See pictures of Belgrade riots after Kosovo declared independence...