Should Clinton have intervened in Kosovo?

[East Coast Pirate]

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[leftstreet]

1. FFS As if Clinton DIDN'T 'intervene' in making that mess

Good Gawd

[geek tragedy]

2. He was right to intervene there, just as Obama would be wrong to intervene

in Syria without partnering with the Russians.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Clinton Didn't Partner With The Russians...

...in Kosovo. In fact they were highly critical of our actions there. Serbia, just like Syria, was a former Soviet client...

[geek tragedy]

7. The objective there was achievable by military force.

Not so with Assad.

And, the USSR/Russia was a paper tiger back in those days, due to internal reckoning.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Hindsight...

...at the outset of the Kosovo campaign, I recall many critics, right and left, who claimed Clinton had no clear objective and that the Tito-era missile defense systems and mountainous terrain would be a graveyard for any attacker/invader. While a paper tiger, the Russians still can play spoiler in these states and have...protecting Assad with weaponry that's being used on his own people, just like Milosevic used Russian weapons against the Bosnians, Croatians and Kosovars.

That said...I agree that missile strikes alone won't knock out Assad and may even embolden him. I don't favor unilateral U.S. action here...this is an international matter...

Cheers...

[geek tragedy]

9. I favored intervention in Kosovo, and thought the leftwing critics of it

were being idiots.

Here, we don't have that kind of leverage due to geography, force sizes, alignments of the various factions etc.

Honestly, international humanitarian law is a tragic joke.

cheers

[bowens43]

3. Is this an attempt at a variation of the 'Clinton's Penis' defense?

[el_bryanto]

4. The Clinton's Penis defense is impossible to penetrate. NT

[madinmaryland]

6. That depends on the definition of "is".

[East Coast Pirate]

10. No.

I was in favor of Kosovo. Milosovic was a mass murderer. Don't know what to think about Syria. It's a mess.