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...past ten years or so, the world has been given multiple examples of effective U.N. intervention. In the Gulf War of 1991, Kuwaiti liberation succeeded because of a massive U.N.-led multilateral effort, and few can argue with the result. A U.N.-backed, NATO-led effort to save Kosovo from the territorial machinations of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia was equally successful. It is U.N. bodies like the International Criminal Tribunal that are striving to bring justice to Yugoslavia and Rwanda...
...same logic which would render NATO’s Kosovo intervention illegal merely because it was not sanctioned by the Security Council (it was opposed by Russia and China) should not in any way bind America and its allies’ decisions to intervene abroad. When American values and interests are at stake, the United States cannot afford to be shackled by an imagined moral authority that the U.N. no longer deserves...
...case you weren’t aware, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark led NATO forces to victory over Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. I’m being facetious, of course; Clark’s supporters remind us of his role as Supreme Allied Commander during the Kosovo war every chance they get. And, for that matter, well they should...
...Clark’s larger record in the Balkans without blemish? Hardly. Leave aside his various mistakes in Kosovo, such as his ordering British Gen. Sir Michael Jackson to advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...
Clark backers might argue that his meeting with Mladic is old news. Mark E. Lebel ’07 of Harvard Students for Clark writes in an e-mail that Clark’s stance on intervention in Kosovo shows he has no affinity for dictators or war criminals. That’s certainly true. But the Banja Luka episode still reflects a mind-boggling lack of judgment...