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Clinton's attack on Serbia is the model for "humanitarian
intervention," and it was a lie from the beginning. 78 days of NATO
bombing in 1999 did not prevent Serbian reprisals but caused them.
Even Clinton administration officials now admit
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to the broader trends of political and economic reform - not the
plight of Kosovar Albanians - that best explains NATO’s war. The
real reason for the bombing was that
Yugoslavia was a lone holdout in Europe to the political and
economic
programs of the Clinton administration and its allies.
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On 3/6/11 3:33 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4D73FD98.2060605@illinois.edu" type="cite">[If
you're US foreign policy planners named "Power" and "Slaughter,"
you may be disposed from that reason alone to recommend killing -
"from the best possible motives." Or maybe it's simply female
sympathy for (some) victims - that happens to serve US imperial
interests...]
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...Mr. Obama has told his staff to study previous uprisings in
Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia for lessons
about how they unfolded and what role the United States played. He
won’t lack for impassioned advice: Among his staff members is
Samantha Power, a human-rights expert who won a Pulitzer Prize for
a book chronicling American foreign-policy responses to genocide.
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Former officials are also taking up the call. Anne-Marie
Slaughter, who recently resigned as the State Department’s
director of policy planning, said in a tweet: “The international
community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan
protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.”
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Ms. Slaughter, a former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at Princeton, said winning
support for a no-flight zone in the United Nations Security
Council would be tricky, given Russian and Chinese resistance.
Instead, she favors a request by a provisional government in
Libya, endorsed by the African Union and the Arab League.
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The trouble is figuring out who might make up such a government...
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