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...United States must not be stingy in pledging funds for Kosovo. After all, it was largely because of the United States that NATO troops are in Kosovo at all. Now that Kosovo is almost completely autonomous from Yugoslavia, it has only the U.N. and NATO to rely on for assistance. Isolated from their neighbors, the Kosovars are left to fight their own battles amongst themselves and against all odds. With little police presence--the police who do patrol the area are armed with handguns, but are facing gangs armed with grenades and automatic weapons--the number of killings has escalated...
...must adopt the same leadership position which it voluntarily took on when it initiated the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. Pointing fingers while the Kosovars suffer won't help other nations take up the task. The U.S., while continuing to urge the E.U. and NATO member nations to share in the burden of policing in the area, must also lead by example. Blaming other nations won't erase the fact that the U.S. has taken it upon itself to be a world leader, and now must bear the consequences...
...report released this week by Human Rights Watch says both sides are wrong. After inspecting bomb sites in the former Yugoslavia, researchers found that civilians had been killed at 90 targets attacked by NATO jets. And yet total civilian casualties were about 500, less than half the Yugoslav estimate. NATO war planners "were obsessed with avoiding collateral damage," says William Arkin, who led the investigation. "But it doesn't necessarily mean they made the right target choices." The Pentagon, which hasn't been able to send officers to Serbia to assess damage, had no comment on the report...
...days of the antiwar liberals are long past. President Clinton's offensive foreign policy strategy is accountable for almost one-third of the casualties in Yugoslavia's civil war. His pilots have bombed a Chinese embassy. He has ordered an attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory that a Dateline NBC report suggested may have been merely a civilian facility. His sanctions have killed more than a million innocent Iraqi civilians through malnutrition and easily preventable diseases...
Franjo Tudjman may be spinning in his grave - but hey, even Churchill got voted out straight after he'd won the war for Britain. Only weeks after the death of the man who led them to independence from Yugoslavia, Croats handed his opposition a landslide electoral victory. With 84 percent of the vote counted Tuesday, a center-left alliance headed by former communist Ivica Racan holds an overwhelming lead over Tudjman's nationalist party. "Croatians want to end the economic and political isolation that Tudjman's policies brought on Croatia," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The opposition...