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...Serbs' will to fight but also to destroy the idea that dictators could commit the nastiest of crimes as long as they acted inside their own country. It was a war, says Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, an influential Clinton adviser, designed to show that men like Slobodan Milosevic "cannot hide behind a border." But for Clinton it may also be the war that allows him to establish a foreign policy for the 21st century...
...week, as a team of TIME reporters spent days in and around Pec (prewar pop. 100,000), it was possible to discern method in the Serbs' awful madness. Kosovo, the evidence suggests, was razed by a killing machine on orders that stretched directly from Yugoslavia's commander in chief Slobodan Milosevic to the armed thug on the streets. The stories of Pec reveal in miniature how the entire plan worked...
...demise of Slobodan Milosevic alone would not suffice for Jusuf Tafili as he stood mourning his murdered father and the seven others buried together beneath simple wooden stakes reading A.T., S.T., R.T., I.A...."All Serbian men had their hands in blood," he said. "If they were not directly involved in crimes, they helped the criminals. They deserve no space in Kosovo anymore." Nor, he says, did Albanians "give all this blood to stay under Serbian hands." To repay their sacrifice and to exact justice, he says, the Kosovars deserve independence...
Critics of the Kosovo project--some of whom said we should stay out, some of whom said we should go in with ground troops, many of whom managed to say both these things, and all of whom predicted that the Serbs would never cave--are bitter. Slobodan Milosevic betrayed them! Doesn't he watch the Sunday talk shows? Doesn't he know that air power never works? Has he forgotten that he represents a centuries-old tradition of ethnic violence? Where is that quagmire he was supposed to produce...
...calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working for the Serb authorities, or even just one who questioned KLA strategy." If proved, the charges against Thaci could be embarrassing for Washington, which on Thursday put a $5 million bounty on the head of another war thug, Slobodan Milosevic. The U.S. association with Thaci may also be dangerous for the Balkans as a whole. "The KLA hasn?t abandoned its goal of creating a Greater Albania, and pictures of U.S. officials alongside KLA leaders sends the message that Washington supports the KLA option," says Anastasijevic. "That...