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NEWSWEEK: Letter to Cohen Says Only Ground Troops Would Guarantee Fulfillment of NATO's Objectives in Kosovo
NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- President Clinton has been told that he won't win the war in Kosovo without the use of ground troops, Newsweek has learned. A few weeks ago the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a letter to Defense Secretary William Cohen saying that only ground troops would guarantee fulfillment of the administration's political objectives, Newsweek reports in the current issue.
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True, there are some in the Pentagon who see the letter as just a classic case of the brass covering its collective backside, writes Newsweek International Editor Michael Elliott. But there is a growing sense in the military that time is running out, he writes in the May 24 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May 17).
A ground war must begin by August in order to help the 600,000 Kosovars who are living out in the open before the snows of winter arrive, Newsweek reports, which means forces must start assembling by the beginning of June.
So for Clinton, a crucial decision cannot be delayed much longer. Nobody fairminded can doubt that the president is deeply, even passionately, engaged in a search for policies to bridge ethnic divides, Elliott writes. But it is still unclear that he has drawn the obvious conclusion of the Kosovo war: you can't stop a humanitarian outrage from 15,000 feet in the air.
SOURCE: Newsweek
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