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Bush, for instance, omitted Yugoslavia when he identified areas where the U.S. military should intervene, although he supported Clinton's intervention in Kosovo. A couple months ago Bush stated unequivocally, "We should not send our troops to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide in nations outside our strategic interest." This is a precarious position to hold while the world becomes increasingly integrated politically and economically. The instability in the Balkins made waves felt in the European Union and beyond. It is becoming increasingly difficult to identify where our strategic interests begin and end. Bush has repeatedly said that the U.S. should...
...peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish out reconstruction aid if Kostunica takes office. But Washington in particular is keeping its distance to stave off charges of interfering to get rid of Milosevic. "Ultimately," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "the people themselves have...
Dictators almost never go gently after elections. And if ever one has had a compelling interest in staying on, it's Slobodan Milosevic. Yugoslavia's malign strongman of 13 years and mastermind of four ever more savage ethnic wars lives under international indictment for crimes against humanity. But, suddenly, the man who successfully depicted himself as at one with the Serb people has lost his aura of invincibility with the stunning official admission that he came in second in last week's presidential ballot. No one knew which of his nighttime hideouts he was holed...
Still, there are signs of hope in Yugoslavia. Milosevic's backhanded tactics for securing his stranglehold on power--he changed the constitution to schedule the election nine months before its usual time, in attempt to disable his opposition--now seem foolhardy miscalculations. And Milosevic finally has shown himself to be not insensitive to his people's preferences. Student leaders have been left to their protests, unharassed by police. National TV has remarkably evaded the propaganda machine and reported Milosevic's stunning loss. These breakthroughs have met with encouraging signs from abroad. President Clinton, along with several European leaders, has announced...
...democratic principles. The voices of Serbs have indeed gone unheard long enough. Kostunica would be wise to use this moment in the limelight to convince Serbs and the international community of his commitment to a real, working democracy. It is about time for a new, more peaceful chapter in Yugoslavia's troubling history...