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Reviving the idea of the 'good war'
The French and British governments are cynically using and abusing the situation in Kosovo to try to resurrect support for liberal imperialism.
David Chandler
The foreign secretaries of France and the UK, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband, went on the propaganda offensive last week over Kosovo, with a joint opinion piece published in Le Monde and on the Guardian website (1). The new foreign secretaries, appointed under the incoming governments of Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, aim to restore the moral gloss of campaigning liberal interventionism. In August, they led the call for the creation of the world's largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan (2). Now they are talking up the need for tough action over Kosovo.
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