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Finally, the Serbs have won. After months of killing, raping and shelling, the Serb forces have brought the Bosnian government to its knees. The peace talks under way are not a compromise. They are a legitimization of the Serbian victories...
...these victories are not the end of the Balkan horror story--just the close of another bloody chapter, with the worst still to come. If settlements are soft on Serbia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic could cause a European crisis that will dwarf the current one, and put millions more lives at risk...
...warning, and if so, how. Though there have been reports in Western Europe that the Bush Administration has drawn up contingency plans to intervene with as many as 100,000 American ground troops in Kosovo, officials deny that. Pentagon aides say the U.S. would rely primarily on bombing Serbian air bases, other military installations and supply lines...
...Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...
Well before any involvement in Kosovo, the U.S. could find itself embroiled in Bosnia. Bush is seeking U.N. approval for a resolution enforcing a no-fly zone that Serbia has been violating, and the Pentagon talks not just of shooting down Serbian planes and helicopters but also of bombing the bases from which they fly. Contingency plans are being drawn up to establish safe havens for refugees, presumably protected in part by U.S. forces...