... United Nations Operation in Somalia, the Kosovo Force, the United Nations Interim Administration M...
Iraq will merely close a post-Cold War chapter in American foreign policy, one that began with the Persian Gulf War -- and with Bosnia. After the collapse of communism in 1989, idealism, the export of democracy and humanitarian interventionism were all the rage among journalists and intellectuals -- much as realism, restraint and benign dictatorship are now. Ten years ago Liberia, Sierra Leone and other countries less institutionally developed than Iraq were considered prime candidates for liberal change. Back then, people such as Brent Scowcroft and James Baker were attacked not just by neo-conservatives but by liberal internationalists, too. In those first, heady post-Cold War years, to be called a "realist" was practically an insult. The Balkan interventions, because they paid strate...
...?" to "Should NATO Expand?" Our 1999 war in Kosovo, as much as the events of Sept. 11, 2001, allowed ...
[Lloyd Axworthy] said that by calling Israel's response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of its soldiers "measured,'' [Stephen Harper] closed off any chance for Canada to be an honest broker at the emergency talks in Rome yesterday which failed to find a solution to end the fighting. Similarly, Axworthy denies that he is always opposed to military action, noting he fully backed Canada's role in the 1999 Kosovo war. But Axworthy said Harper is making a mistake by believing in the "religious reliance'' on military aggression that [George W. Bush] advocates.
... that the changes in circumstances in Kosovo were stable and durable and that there was no just...
During his visit to neighbouring Albania earlier this month, U.S. President George W. Bush declared: "At some point, sooner rather than later, you've got to say 'Enough is enough -- Kosovo is independent.'" There was great joy in Kosovo (where 90 per cent of the population are ethnic Albanians), but in Moscow there were threats of a veto. A few months earlier, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. diplomat who negotiated an end to the war in Bosnia in 1995, warned in the Washington Post that "Russia's actions could determine whether there is another war in Europe... If Moscow vetoes or delays (Kosovo's independence) the Kosovar Albanians will declare independence unilaterally. Some countries, including the United States and many Muslim states, would probably recognize them, but most of the Europe...
... enforcement and ultimately to war over Kosovo, Canadian forces found themselves engaged in deadl...
The Legion's position on the Victoria Cross and the Unknown Soldier was taken on Jan. 20, 1999, even as members of the Canadian air force were readying to participate in a 78-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization air war that ended ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo by Serb forces. Air force commanders fought army and navy colleagues over the awarding of a medal for the Kosovo campaign to no avail. The prevailing thought was: "It couldn't have been that hard, no one was killed," says [Billie Flynn]. Instead of a medal struck for them, the Canadian pilots were awarded the NATO medal with a Kosovo bar and ribbon if they flew a minimum of 15 missions. Those who risked their lives on 14 sorties or less were out of luck.
That said, [Vladimir Putin]'s rhetorical table-thumping was just as calculated as the [Nikita Khrushchev] sort: after years of post-Soviet weakness, oil-rich Russia will behave as Putin sees fit. The enlargement of NATO is condemned as a threat, even though Russia's western border has never been more at peace, NATO does its soldiering elsewhere, and even Putin accepts (though his generals do not) that plans to site bits of America's anti-missile defences in Poland and the Czech Republic are no threat to Russia's nuclear deterrent. What a cynical Putin really wants is a Russian sphere of influence in Europe. At NATO and in the EU (and even over America's invasion of Iraq) Russia has no rights to a nyet. Only at the UN Security Council does Russia have a veto. Yet its refusal to press the...
... press the Serbs to end their atrocities in Kosovo prompted NATO to go to war for the first time. Rus...
... from countries like Greece in the Kosovo War. The shift towards global out-of-area missions...
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