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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (5854)	4/29/1999 1:48:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

George, you are right, it is a good article. For those who might skip the whole article, this summarizes it pretty well: Faced with two readings of history on which to base their actions - the Vietnam-driven Powell doctrine and the apocalyptic analogy with 1930s Europe - NATO rejected both. NATO limited its war to the air, choosing to sacrifice real military effectiveness for the sake of limiting casualties and domestic political backlash. Yet NATO can hardly argue that it chose to confront the dictator early. After all, Milosevic ordered his troops into action in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, followed up with Bosnia in 1992 and only got around to ravaging Kosovo in March 1998. Where NATO goes from here is difficult to say. Its early predictions of a quick war that brings Milosevic to his knees were clearly wrong. Under the cover of NATO air raids, in fact, Milosevic has created a reality on the ground in Kosovo that will be impossible to negotiate away. Ultimately, NATO is likely to prevail militarily. But at what price? And how will Kosovo's Albanians now be returned to their homeland? NATO may well find that in order to save Kosovo, it really was necessary to destroy it.