Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweep the world." While peace is far from universal even in Europe, Western Europe is more prosperous and more unified than it has ever been. The cold war proved to be only a temporary faltering. The success of the wartime alliance gave birth to the United Nations and NATO and made America a permanent leader of the global community...
Even with the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. cannot divest itself of interest in NATO in order to concentrate on the Americas. It would be wonderful if the local hegemons in every region of the world would take care of their area's particular problems, but it doesn't always work out that way. "Standing up for what's right" isn't what the Europeans are best at, historically speaking. At this point, it looks like the U.S. will have to lead the way in Bosnia and in Haiti...
...problems in the maintenance of peace and tranquility all over the world is the ineffectiveness of the various international organizations who have committed to mutual defense of national security. Gala press conferences to announce the condemnation of this or that coup or revolt were hardly the founding goals of NATO, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States...
Procedures have since been streamlined, but procedure is not the problem. The problem is that we could ever have contemplated letting the U.N. -- with no general staff, no military expertise, no command structure -- direct a NATO air campaign in the Balkans...
Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...