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END GAME Is the war over or not? While the world waits for the Yugoslav military to cut a deal with NATO, every complaint, paranoid and otherwise, about the war and the putative peace has made its...
...In the Gulf War, Iran got out of Kuwait...
...While the world waits for the Yugoslav military to cut a deal with NATO, every complaint, paranoid and otherwise, about the war and the putative peace has made its way into print...
...It is curious that an "end game" in Yugoslavia, which bears such a striking resemblance to the end of the Gulf War, should be the object of such criticism...
...At least on the domestic front, there are some Republicans who will never forgive a NATO victory because it will redound to the benefit of the man they love to hate, William Jefferson Clinton...
...In both conflicts the West agreed to end its war effort when the opposition (Saddam Hussein in Iran and Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia) agreed to meet its demands...
...In both cases the goals were limited, and in both cases neither President George Bush nor President Clinton was willing to enlarge them, for example, by insisting that Hussein or Milosevic had to go, or by directly invading Iran or Yugoslavia...
...in this war, Yugoslavia will (eventually) withdraw its military from Kosovo...
...The willingness to abide by the original, and limited, goals may appear shortsighted because criminal regimes are left in place...
...But in a post-cold war world where coalition armies and international cooperation are necessities, it hardly seems likely that a larger war could be wrung from already reluctant allies, or that the success of such international peacekeeping should be jeopardized by unrealistic political ambitions...
Vol. 126 • June 1999 • No. 12
