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13. Raymond Bonner, "War Crimes Panel Finds
Croat Troops `Cleansed' the Serbs," New York
2. Prior to the start of the NATO air strikes,
Times, March 21, 1999, p. A1.
Serbian forces were engaged in a bitter guerrilla
war with the KLA, during which both sides
14. Quoted in Stephen Engelberg, "Clinton
engaged in atrocities. Although some ethnic
Administration Took Hands-Off Position on
Albanian civilians were killed, and others dis-
Croat Offensive," Houston Chronicle, August 13,
placed, as a consequence of the Serbian coun-
1995, p. 30.
terinsurgency campaign, the Serbian forces were
not engaged in systematic murder, or "ethnic
15. Quoted in "Britain Angry after U.S. Denies
cleansing." For discussion and documentation,
`Ethnic Cleansing,'" Independent (London),
see Christopher Layne, "Blunder in the Balkans:
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17. Henri J. Barkey, Graham E. Fuller, and
3. John Kifner, "The Ravaging of Kosovo," New
Morton I. Abramowitz, Turkey's Kurdish Question
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(Lanham Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998);
1999, a British spokesman estimated that the
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Serb offensive in Kosovo had resulted in the
Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of Trans-
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State Ethnic Conflict (New York: Frank Cass,
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1997).
10,000: Ethnic Albanian Survivors Streaming
Home," Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1999, p. 1. This
18. U.S. Department of State, Office of the
claim, however, was based on uncorroborated
Spokesman, Secretary of State Madeleine K.
reports from ethnic Albanian refugees.
Albright, Press Conference on Kosovo, March 25,
1999.
4. Quoted in Daniel Williams, "Brutal Condi-tions
Enveloping Kosovo," Washington Post, March 27,
19. Harry S Truman, Paraphrase from his address
1999, p. A1. See also Barton Gellman, "Yugoslavia
"Strong Defense," September 1, 1950.
Pounded for 2nd Day: Ground Fighting Spreads,
Refugees Swarm across Border," Washington Post,
20. For a discussion of why U.S. policymakers rely
March 26, 1999, p. A1; and Frank Ahrens, "An
so heavily on the "domino theory," see Robert
Endless Stream of Human Misery: As Thousands
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Flee Kosovo, Aid Workers Put a Thousand Faces on
in Dominoes and Bandwagons: Strategic Beliefs and
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21. Dean Rusk, as told to Richard Rusk, in As I
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22. Thomas C. Schelling put it this way: "Few
7. Kifner.
parts of the world are intrinsically worth the risk
of serious war by themselves. . . . But defending
8. Ibid.
them or running risks to protect them may pre-
serve one's commitments to action in other parts
9. Ibid.
of the world at later times." Thomas C. Schelling,
Arms and Influence (New Haven, Conn.: Yale
10. Jeffrey Record, The Wrong War: Why We Lost in
University Press, 1966), p. 124.
Vietnam (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press,
1998), p. 8. Emphasis added.
23. Robert H. Johnson, Improbable Dangers: U.S.
Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After
11. For an overview of the Serbian view of the
(New York: St. Martin's, 1994), p. 206.
conflict, see Daniel Williams, "Analysis: The
Serbian Perspective on the War," Washington Post,
24. The intervention in Kosovo and the conse-
June 20, 1999, p. A19.
quent expansion of NATO's geographic scope and
its strategic responsibilities are part of the larger
12. Quoted in Tim Juddah, The Serbs (New Haven,
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