Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly NATO has had success in debilitating Milosevic's military capabilities with its bombing runs. Milosevic's military infrastructure has been reduced; his ability to retaliate has been minimalized. But these achievements carry the same applicability as the ideas of "autonomy" and "peace" that have echoed through the Allied Force's characterization of the war. They sound like robust achievements and the kinds of gains that win the wars politicians fight, but they miss the essence of the Kosovo problem...
...knows now. And he also knows that sooner than anyone planned, the candidates are having to take their first test, and can't quite get away with giving true-or-false answers to the essay questions. Yes, they all support the American troops. They all hope that NATO wins, whatever that would mean. They all believe the Clinton Administration has botched the job somehow or other. But beyond the safe consensus, the problem of figuring out what to say, and what not to say, about the Balkan crisis is turning out to be the first test of the candidates' reflexes...
...cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
...split first surfaced two weeks ago on the Senate floor, when only 16 Republicans voted to support the NATO air strikes. "To say Republicans are uneasy about this is an understatement," says a top G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill. "This is a party that likes to think of itself as the mirror image of those antiwar protesters who undermined those American boys in Vietnam. But because the situation is so volatile and the President hasn't laid out an endgame, it's hard to react...
...positions were lauded as statesmanlike and presidential, and moved to sound more forceful himself. In East Texas on an Easter bass-fishing holiday, Bush told TIME that he would support the use of ground troops if the military believed they were necessary in order to win the conflict. NATO's success and credibility were crucial to U.S. interests, he argued. He resisted taking swipes at Clinton. "It's easy to second-guess the Administration," Bush said. "The question is what do we do next. America must be careful to commit our military. But when we do so, we must...