Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Clinton and others have said, Milosevic is a savage tyrant. He has ascended to dominance in the Balkans in tumultuous times and added to the tumult with his zealous appeals to Serbian nationalism and his ethnic cleansing. It is because he has such a history of belligerence that the U.S. should realize that he will fight until it forces him to stop fighting. The U.S. needs to terrify him into submission with a swift, assertive show of power. The U.S. needs to fight directly and in-person, stopping his savagery with the savageries...
...been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets to include the Serbian government's infrastructure...
...Friday the White House was cheered that NATO strikes were cutting critical fuel supplies. But perhaps it was always unlikely that one could bomb Milosevic into negotiating an acceptable political solution for Kosovo. Now it looks out of the question. The down-the-middle construct of Rambouillet that retained Serbian sovereignty over the province but gave self-rule to the ethnic Albanians for three years seems dead. No one believes the Kosovars can live with the Serbs hell-bent on eliminating them--and no one trusts some of the Kosovars not to seek bloodthirsty revenge. The anguished children streaming...
...with 500-pounders and the Combined Effects Munition, a particularly macabre bomb filled with 202 tank-busting, flesh-shredding bomblets that can turn acres of land into plowed fields. B-2s, flying 31-hour round trips from Missouri, are dropping more discriminating satellite-guided bombs across wide areas of Serbian-held territory...
...nuclear-bomb shelters are impregnable, they may be in for a surprise: the Nighthawks are specially trained for such missions. Navy F-18s from the carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt are expected to see action. And the U.S. Army may get a chance to unleash its AH-64 gunships against Serbian targets. The choppers could also help take out Serbian special-forces units operating inside Kosovo--units the Pentagon is starting to believe engineered the "snatch" of the three Army scouts last week...