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...duties at 10 Downing Street took her further afield—to Brussels to support NATO’s press office during the conflict in Kosovo and into Kosovo itself...
...Capt. Doug Rokke, who headed these operations, said in the same documentary it took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke’s conclusion? “If you can’t clean...
...billion. But the military's precise role in support of the President's wider Wilsonian objectives remains unclear. So far, the Administration seems wedded to the distinctive theory of nation building adopted by the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations in Somalia (disastrously) and in Bosnia and Kosovo (rather more successfully): use American military power, preferably from the air, to effect "regime change" in the nation you want to rebuild. Then pass the buck to someone else, and hope for the best...
...bunch of pseudo-Rambos,” young drill sergeants who “have complete power over you” but lack the maturity to handle that kind of power. He recalls how one young man who, in light of the Kosovo bombing at the time, refused to serve on his first day at the boot camp—and was imprisoned for a year. “If you don’t do what these people want you to do, they’re going to lock you up,” Kanz says. Another recruit suffered...
...question at the lunch was whether Clark has the stomach for the attacks his candidacy would draw from the military enemies he made during the Kosovo war, despite its success. Clark's book Waging Modern War was tough on many at the Pentagon, including then Defense Secretary William Cohen, who replaced Clark before his tour was up. Still, Clark might be an attractive new face for the Democrats. "It's clear the public today doesn't think Democrats are as strong on national security as the G.O.P.," said a source who attended the lunch. "He has the capacity to negate...