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Article: Milosevic content to play aggressive waiting game against fragile NATO.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 26, 1999
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The conflict between the U.S.-led NATO coalition and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic pits a group of elected political leaders who are trying to minimize the risks of military action against a dictator who has propelled himself to power by repeatedly courting disaster, as he did again Friday by dispatching planes to attack NATO peacekeeping troops in neighboring Bosnia.
While widening a war with an infinitely superior foe may seem stupid or even suicidal to Westerners, it may be a perfectly sensible calculation by Milosevic. The Yugoslav leader may be reckoning that the longer the war continues and the messier it becomes, the more NATO's fragile unity and ...