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Originally Posted by Pete
At first I was getting a tad put off by, as I thought, the anti US slant. But I kept slogging through and came to see his point - his point on a great number of issues.
I liked the bit on Kosovo. The UN Security Council was good also.
It did take a while to make it to the end.
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I expected him to allude to Bosnia and Kosovo as necesarry for foreign policy window dressing considering that genocide in Rhwanda was a much larger atrocity committed on mankind. He did not, at least to some extent.
The "Mirage" of well being shortly after cold war came at a cost. All Clinton and Kofi Anan could do was apologize for doing nothing. Hence the "mirage" of well being and "all is well" by not extending out the hand of the United States, rather the U.N.
Searo Leone was largely brought to peace, for a short time, by privatized military, being Executive Outcomes involvment in both UW and FID during the twist with Hutsi's and Tutsi's. Another example of the Mirage perspecitve that Kagan brings up in the beginning of his writings. In other words, it's ok if military involvement is the only answer , just not at as long as it's our military.
I expect the left to see Darfur as Bush's Rhwanda.