The West was, sure, but then it seemed like the intervention was pretty successful. It was internationally approved, got rid of Milošević, didn't run into any l

The West was, sure, but then it seemed like the intervention was pretty successful. It was internationally approved, got rid of Milošević, didn't run into any long-term nation-building woes as with all of the War on Terror operations. Of course, during it there were the seeds of future conflicts to come- the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the standoff with Russian forces at Pristina airport that future pop star James Blunt had to defuse to prevent WWIII.