Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Fri Jul 30 08:00:59 PDT 1999



> 1) PREDICTION ONE: An Air War cannot be won and terror
> bombing will just
> harden Serbian resistance: Well, whatever one thinks about
> the morality of
> the NATO intervention, the empirical fact is that the basic
> goal of forcing
> Serbia to accept a NATO troop occupation of Kosovo was
> achieved through the
> pure application of air power,

This is why, at this point, I hate Clinton/Albright even more than Nixon/Kissinger. The former have demonstrated that imperial powers like the U.S. can get their way at no cost in blood to themselves. This will result in the ever more indiscriminate use of air power in the future.

Carl



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