Unfortunately, this was a neocon war. Ever know Clinton to fight, willingly? He needed the cover of "intellectuals" like Bill Kristol and Krauthammer to join forces with McCain, Biden, Albright to send Wesley to the Balkans.
If you don't believe, do some searches on "neoconservative Balkans" and examine the theoretical, hegemonic underpinnings.
The neos have never had to answer for the Balkans, but you'll notice that Shwartz and Kristol are very good friends.
This is why I'm all for a post-neo conservatism. These "thinkers" have done more damage than they have helped.
Actually, this was one of those rare instances where the aqendas of the neocons and the libs crossed, but for two different reasons.
The Democrats wanted to narcissistically pretend that it was WWII and they were "saving the Jews" -- and Clinton needed something to take the US' minds off of Monica.
For the Neocons, the 50th anniversary of NATO was coming up with not a single engagement in all of those 50 years. But neocons didn't want NATO to disappear so NATO needed to validate its existence ASAP, because if it didn't, NATO would be an easy target for the political scrap heap.
A neocon lightbulb moment!: What better way for necons to validate NATO's existence and silence Lib objections to NATO's continuation than to makes its first engagement for a lib "humanitarian cause"? And that is precisely what the 1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia was billed as!
The "1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia" was nothing more than "a dirty political deal" brokered to satisfy the unwritten agendas of both the Neocon Republicans and the Liberal Democrats. The fact that people died, a country was destroyed, and we blew open the gates of Europe to Islamofascists was irrelevant to guys like Lieberman & McCain -- "The Donkeys and Elephants marched hand-in-hand and NATO was saved!" was supposed to be the real story -- even if where they marched was "into Hell"!