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...second explanation is proximity. Kosovo, it is said, is a lot closer to the U.S. than is Timor. As National Security Adviser Sandy Berger put it, Kosovo is "in the middle of Europe," while East Timor is "in Asia...
Well, Kosovo is not in the middle of Europe. It is at the periphery of Europe. And both Kosovo and East Timor are more than 4,000 miles away from the U.S. (East Timor being about 1,500 miles farther away...
...Before intervening in Kosovo, the West had championed the case of the Kosovars. The Rambouillet peace conference tried to force Belgrade to turn Kosovo over to NATO. East Timor, on the other hand, has been championed by no one. Bill Clinton is the fifth consecutive American President to ignore its struggle for independence. It was the Indonesians themselves who set the current train of events into motion by unexpectedly allowing a referendum on independence...
...There will be no American infantry in Timor. The U.S. will help others go in. But we will not be baby-sitting the Timorese as we are the Kosovars...
...extraordinary American exertions for Kosovo and not East Timor...