Why we got involved in Kosovo
Excellent analysis of why Clinton and Albright got us involved in Kosovo to begin with. I was going to write an opinion about this, but this article pretty much sums up my opinion of the whole deal.
Coming from the anti-war, peacenik side of American politics, neither Maddy nor Bill had much experience in war-making. A 1990 Madeleine Albright was opposed to military intervention in a small country named Kuwait, because of a belief that force should be used only after all other options have been exhausted. Known for being an aggressive moralist, after her appointment to Secretary of State she proved to be a mutable one too, once causing General Colin Powell’s sturdy frame to nearly fall over when she asked, “What’s the point of having this superb military…if we can’t use it?”
Bill Clinton saw men make wars; he didn’t know why they made them. It probably had something to do with showing muscle, he figured. That some consideration as to right and wrong went into these decisions didn’t occur to him. Nor did the usual weighing of national interest and national good.
For guidance, Bill and Madeleine invoked a different kind of moral compass: one that pointed toward what could be PORTRAYED as right-a scale usually reserved for the interests not of a nation, but of a self.