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Compared to so many other war-torn regions, the Balkan province of Kosovo was progressing nicely. Since NATO bombing ended in 1999, a government with limited powers had been elected. Security was improving. Kosovo Serbs, a minority in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province, could leave their fortified enclaves to shop, work, go skiing. "Things are getting back to normal," a Kosovo Serb restaurateur told Time last month. "People are ready to forget the past and move on." Alas, civil war is not easily forgotten. In a rash of attacks that spread across the province last week like a bushfire, ethnic...
...also stressed the importance of a transfer of power within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), whereby the United States acts as an equal partner with the European members of the alliance...
According to Brzezinski, legitimate organizations such as NATO should replace ad-hoc coalitions, which represent alliances based on “expediency and sometimes manipulation...
...Kerry’s calculus thus makes little sense even from the standpoint of mending fences with Paris and Berlin. The Bush Administration has sent American troops to operate alongside their French counterparts to restore order in Haiti and hosted Schroeder to discuss the possibility of Germany leading the NATO peacekeeping effort in Afghanistan. France also has quietly, according to the U.S. Central Command’s website, contributed troops and airlifters to ongoing NATO operations in Central Asia...
...heart of Kerry's approach, like Bush's, is to give the U.N. and NATO larger roles going forward, that still leaves the question of whether it would work; coordinating a multinational force can be more challenging than relying on a single nation's chain of command. Here it is Kerry's turn to balance political needs against military ones. He believes that democracy and civil society cannot be imposed on an unwilling populace, so NATO and the U.N. have a better chance of success than the U.S. acting alone because whatever Iraqi leadership emerged would be perceived as more...