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...child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. negotiator, enlisted the support of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serb leader is a monster who is currently standing trial in the Hague for war crimes. Moral clarity, presumably, would have suggested that the U.S. follow some other course. And it is true that Bosnia today is not Kansas. But, as Holbrooke says, and is entitled...
...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
...child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. negotiator, enlisted the support of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serb leader is a monster who is currently standing trial in the Hague for war crimes. Moral clarity, presumably, would have suggested that the U.S. follow some other course. And it is true that Bosnia today is not Kansas. But, as Holbrooke says, and is entitled...
...weapons against a legitimate democratic state by pressing for major constitutional changes to accommodate their aspirations. In Kosovo, two years earlier, the U.S. went to war alongside the Kosovo Liberation Army, which Washington had had branded "terrorists" only months before, in order to pursue their shared goal of ending Serb rule over the territory...
BOSNIA Hide and Seek Twice last week NATO troops tried and failed to arrest former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic in a village in the mountainous region of eastern Bosnia. Acting on intelligence that Karadzic was hiding in Celebici, hundreds of troops sealed off the area, cut phone lines and forcibly entered homes, schools and churches. Karadzic is wanted by U.N. war-crimes prosecutors in the Hague on charges of genocide, including the Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims...