Word: wrath
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INCURRED PUBLIC WRATH...
...Kosovo Liberation Army moved in, and it has continued right under the noses of Western peacekeepers. And unlike Kosovo?s Serbs, the Gypsies have nowhere to go. Those who tried to leave with the Serbs were turned back at the border, leaving them to the face the wrath of the Kosovar Albanians. Although NATO's KFOR peacekeepers have vowed to protect them, the understaffed force isn?t geared up to deal with low-level ethnic cleansing. Instead, Gypsies have been forced to abandon their homes and flee to makeshift refugee camps in some of the major Kosovo towns, where...
...tended to break down rather than build up the multinational forums appropriate for dealing with these crises, such as the United Nations." Washington and its NATO pals may have managed to face down Milosevic while hardly involving the U.N., but when it comes to dealing with Mother Nature?s wrath, everyone will need to work together...
...Rambouillet talks, which began in February, were premised on the idea that if Belgrade was presented with an ultimatum to hand the province over to NATO or face the alliance?s military wrath, Slobodan Milosevic wouldn?t risk a fight. The assumption was based on the Bosnia conflict, where he signed on to the Dayton Peace Accords after NATO began bombing Serb positions...
...would be wrong to exult. NATO miscalculated when it entered the war and waged it with self-imposed limits. The armed confrontation failed in its primary aim. Air strikes were undertaken to save Kosovo's Albanians from Serbian wrath, but the offensive that NATO launched gave Milosevic the opening to rampage through the province. It took 72 days of death and destruction to arrive back where the combatants had started: at the original precarious prescription for safeguarding the Kosovars. Except that now 855,000 of them have been expelled from their wasted homeland, thousands have died, and untold others have...