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Are you claiming that those references support the idea that Bill Clinton's administration acted motivated primarily by humanitarian motivations unalloyed with
by frabbit 6y ago
Are you claiming that those references support the idea that Bill Clinton's administration acted motivated primarily by humanitarian motivations unalloyed with the longstanding desire (and repeated demonstration¹) of the United States to systematically destroy all oppositions to its control of most of the world's economy?
That seems like a "fringe" opinion to anyone that has looked in even a half-objective manner at the easily available history.
1. https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/ https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/
- phobosanomaly 6y agoYep. I do claim it. Clinton did not want to get dragged into a potential quagmire in the former Yugoslavia. Sometimes the United States does things to systematically destroy opposition to its control of most of the world's economy. Kosovo wasn't one of those times. I poked through Zoltan's stuff, but I don't see anything that makes any attempt to look at internal decision-making by the Clinton Administration during the period. This Brookings article, however specifically addresses internal decision-making by the Clinton Administration during the period: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/decision-to-intervene-how-the-war-in-bosnia-ended/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/decision-to-intervene-how... If you CTRL-F to "Why was the summer of 1995 any different?" There's a paragraph that explicitly addresses the key elements to Clinton's decision to pursue an interventionist policy in the former Yugoslavia. If you are concerned that the Brookings Institution may be a biased source of information, I welcome you to review it's rating on Media Bias/Fact Check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/brookings-institute/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/brookings-institute/