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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1492)5/21/2003 2:47:37 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 20773
 
Dale,

Re: Just a comment from someone with a lot of Balkan experience

I have lately been reading some unsettling commentary that the Clinton intervention into the internal affairs of Bosnia and Kosovo were not so much motivated by the publicly announced humanitarian aims that were a "cover", but rather by the usual U.S. foreign policy realpolitik calculation of spheres of influence. That is to say, Milosevic was becoming too powerful a regional force, aligned as he was with his Slav brothers in Russia and the FSU and the practical pols in our State Department, DoD and intel community decided that a bout of "divide and conquer" was in order. Much like has been touted in PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" or the "National Security Strategy of the United States", the hardliners in the Clinton foreign apparatus made a preventive/preemptive strike against Milosevic's growing regional power, eliminating a possible threat to American hegemony in Southeastern Europe.

Comments welcomed.

-Ray
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