This conflict was started with the objectives of promoting peace, and humanitarian relief.
We now have a humanitarian disaster, unprecedented hatred between the two communities, and a new arms race on our hands.
People should be happy and relieved that the war is over, but there is something inherently obscene in the self-congratulory victory talk and its spining by politicians, given the means that were used, the resulting situation, and the fact people are crammed in camps, that Kosovo and Serbia have to be rebuilt, and that peace is still elusive.
All that was achieved so far was to stabilize a humanitarian disaster provoked by a "humanitarian war". We still have to deal with the consequences, and there lays the real challenge.
It seems that even Blair has understood this.
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