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...Rambouillet hadn?t reckoned with the deep historical attachment to Kosovo across the political spectrum in Serbia. It would have been difficult for any politician to concede to NATO?s demands, let alone for Milosevic, who?d built his nationalist credentials on the promise to protect Kosovo?s Serbs, and whose officer corps was even more nationalist than he. Moreover, the Dayton analogy may have been stretched, in the sense that Dayton came after a three-year ground war that had left both sides exhausted. The Serbs called NATO?s bluff, leaving the alliance compelled to respond forcefully...
...because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings of the U.N.-authorized international peacekeeping force, KFOR. Because the U.N. resolution doesn?t put NATO in charge of the peacekeeping operation, Moscow is insisting on playing a larger role...
...specifically singled out China, Serbia and Latin American countries...
Jackson, who traveled to Belgrade in May to free three American POWs, has been calling for an end to the NATO strikes against Serbia since his return...
Jackson, who traveled to Belgrade in May to free three American POWs, has been calling for an end to the NATO strikes against Serbia since his return...