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Article: Realpolitik and slim odds belie Clinton's war against Milosevic. (fair comment).(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 21, 1999
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President Clinton says NATO's stratospheric bombing war against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is to save Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing and genocide and to deter any would-be imitators anywhere in the world.
But don't you believe it any more than Woodrow Wilson's preachy proclamation that World War I was the war to end wars. Don't hold your breath for any war crimes or genocide prosecution of Milosevic before an international tribunal despite the mountain of incriminating evidence. When real-politik grapples with international humanitarian law, the latter invariably capitulates.
Students of ethnic conflict in the eastern Mediterranean ...