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...deal with believe Washington doesn't really have a coherent foreign policy right now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "We tend to rely on short-term tactical responses to crises as they arise, but there's no sense that our responses to situations such as Iraq or Kosovo are governed by a long-term strategic vision...
Slobodan Milosevic's characteristic smug smile is more than normally appropriate right now -- after all, he's the only winner in the meltdown of the Western-authored Kosovo peace deal. NATO's second deadline for agreement passed on Tuesday with neither side on board, but instead of bombs, the Serb president got another three-week extension -- bombing Milosevic into acquiescence wasn't an option as long as his enemies played hard to get. Says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "While the U.S. and the international community are playing down the extent of the failure at Rambouillet, Milosevic is the only winner...
...NATO focused on forcing Milosevic to accept peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, hard-line rebels took over the ethnic Albanian delegation. "That made life a lot easier for Milosevic," says Anastasijevic. So no bombs, no agreement and -- as both sides let their weapons do the talking in new clashes in Kosovo Tuesday -- no sign of peace...
...talks believe they can negotiate a temporary autonomy that gives ethnic Albanians control over most governmental functions in the province. The biggest hurdle is persuading Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw all his special police from the province and let NATO soldiers keep order there for three years while Kosovo's final status is negotiated...
...troops' deployment, they don't have a lot of enthusiasm for the mission, which could be a quagmire. The 6,700 U.S. soldiers still on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia have so far been almost casualty free because their job has been to separate two identifiable armies. But in Kosovo "there will be a lot more free-lancers," as a defense official puts it. Rogue guerrillas from the Kosovo Liberation Army and undercover Serb security agents may try to sabotage the accord by targeting U.S. troops. Kosovo may yet see peace, but the Marines may pay a price for keeping...