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...Kosovo campaign has always been about negotiating with missiles rather than fighting to the finish. NATO isn't trying to capture Kosovo from the Serbs in battle -- that would demand a massive commitment of ground troops, risking high casualties and potentially forcing Russia to intervene. Instead, the alliance's bombs are intended to persuade President Milosevic to end his persecution of the Kosovar Albanians and accept NATO's terms for settling the Kosovo dispute...
...bitch," Arkan said last Friday night, sipping tea with me in the ostentatious lobby of the Hyatt Hotel in Belgrade. "I didn't see any Serb doing any crime." As for the latest accusations, Arkan denies he has even been in Kosovo and declares that his soldiers are in training only in case NATO deploys ground troops. He denies that the province is being purposefully cleared of its ethnic Albanian population. So why are refugees streaming across Kosovo's borders? "Because you started bombing," he says...
...Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation. And in fact, using the guidelines of the Kevin Bacon game, whereby any actor can be traced to Kevin in six steps, a lot of the bad stuff that has happened to America, or anywhere, can be traced to our bow-tied friend. Then again, he can even be traced back to Kev himself...
Bill Clinton deprecated the Balkans' reputation for blood feud. But sanctified outrage passes down from generation to generation. The Battle of Kosovo--when the Turks, advancing west toward Vienna in 1389, defeated the Serbs and left their bodies to the crows--might have been the day before yesterday...
...conundrum of memory: Healthier to remember? Surely it is best sometimes to forget--though not to forget Kosovo now. Eventual obliviousness may equally free all sides from the hereditary obligation to hate. I wonder how Bill Clinton and the privileged American tribe will fare in the dark wood of the Balkans. What's happening there now amounts to a religious war between the future and the past. Beware: in that place, the past is a black hole...