The Washington Post, April 6th, 1999
When a military operation goes sour, doubts, recrimination, second thoughts and frantic diplomatic fixes can distract attention from what is really important. The most important thing to keep in mind about NATO's use of force against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is why it was necessary in the first place. Milosevic's plan, initiated well before NATO's bombing of Serbia and accelerated during it, has been to denude the province of Kosovo of its Albanian population. The means he has chosen are forcible expulsion and (to an extent still unclear) murder. If he is not stopped, nearly 2 mil...
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