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...that standard, Clark didn't get what he wanted in the 1999 Kosovo war. He fought to have ground troops to force Slobodan Milosevic to halt the killing of thousands of Albanian Kosovars in the province of Kosovo, which might have made military sense but would have shattered NATO unity. But the Clinton Administration took ground troops off the table early, as a way to preserve the alliance (some NATO members didn't want to attack at all) and paint the war as all of Europe, and the U.S., against Yugoslavia. Clark made the best of it, eventually persuading...
...Clark, who entered the race a mere nine days ago, the debate marked one of his first opportunities to stake out stances on the issues. And the former NATO commander—a registered Republican until recently who voted for Nixon and Reagan—was immediately pressed to defend his Democratic credentials...
...vote in the main executive body of the E.U. The French and Germans would like to see social and labor matters given greater prominence, while the British remain suspicious. London will take particular care to assure that the mutual defense clause in the constitution doesn't compete with NATO obligations. "One messy horse-trading session" is the prediction of one British official. It will help no one if it gets too messy. The point of the exercise, after all, isn't just to streamline the treaties and clarify the roles of various E.U. institutions. It is also meant to breathe...
...retreat from its outposts in Kosovo, CNN and BBC regaled in airing errant U.S. bombs blowing trains off their tracks and careening into downtown Belgrade. And only after the broadcast of a certain amount of death and destruction against the people of Sarajevo was it acceptable for America and NATO to threaten a military barrage of their very...
Clark, for his part, has promised only to announce a decision by Sept. 19. He would start millions of dollars behind in funding and have to build a national-campaign organization virtually overnight. But his supporters insist the former NATO commander has enough grass-roots support (there are at least three "Draft Clark" movements on the Web) that catching up won't be a problem. They have already raised or won pledges for hundreds of thousands of dollars--enough to pay for TV ads in New Hampshire, Iowa and Clark's home state of Arkansas. And Clark's speeches have...