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To: stockman_scott who wrote (119679)	11/16/2003 8:36:51 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 281500

"Madeleine's war." was an unconvincing affair... I never understood some of it's aspects, let alone agree - like, for instance, what was the purpose of bombing major cities, destroying their infrastructure... (This is how the Chinese Embassy was taken out, along with many other irrelevant objects). Below is the link to the New Yorker article under question. Clark became involved in the political side of the turbulent events in the Balkans, which now centered on the disputed province of Kosovo. His superiors at the Pentagon felt there was no reason to believe that America would play a role there; it wasn’t America’s fight. He felt differently. “Kosovo was simply an extension of Bosnia in the mind of Wesley Clark,” Holbrooke said. “For Clark, Kosovo was the logical next step in his liberal interventionist attitude toward the use of force.” newyorker.com