[montyspython]

"What I cannot abide is the suggestion that US troops deployed to the region were bad actors and war criminals in some kind of sinister plot."

You have to admit that Clinton's interventionist policies were boneheaded, he helped create the current Bosnian mess, it's another attempt at creating another mini-Yugo State with a bunch of unwilling participants forced to live together.

The original Yugo experiment didn't work, why should this one?

[wideawake]

You have to admit that Clinton's interventionist policies were boneheaded

I never claimed they were otherwise. His policies showed clear favoritism toward Albania, when the Albanian government was clearly guilty of violating Yugoslavia's sovereignty.

Neither side's hands were clean there, but Clinton did not place the KLA under the same scrutiny that he placed the Yugoslavian forces.

This was a repetition of the same flawed policy pursued vis-a-vis the Croatians in Krajina and vis-a-vis the Bosnians.

It was as if the Clinton administration had no overarching long-term goal in the Balkans but simply acted in disconnected bursts.