[Sybeck1]

Dang, thought slick Willie went against Kofi on this. Thanks

[Chameleon]

The bombing action against Kosovo was a NATO action and WAS NOT APPROVEDD BY THE UN!

It is inarguable that the Nato strikes against Yugoslavia went outside the authority of the UN.

The Russians were totally opposed to a military solution in Yugoslavia, and would have vetoed any authorization of Nato's bombiong campaign.

[Red Badger]

iT wASN'T kOFFFIN...iT WAS bOUTROS bOUTROS bOUTROS bOUTROS bOUTROS bY gOLLY..........oOP! fFFIN CAPS LOCK !......

[Eva]

I thought that Kosovo was done without UN approval, but not Bosnia. Here is some information that I found:

Likewise in the Kosovo crisis, the initial justification by the Clinton Administration for the use of force against Milosevic was to prevent him from further pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing against the Kosovar Albanians. That is, President Clinton in his address to the American people on the eve of the first day of air strikes against Belgrade told Americans that “[w]e act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from a mounting military offensive…[and] to prevent a wider war…” Echoing his language during the Bosnian crisis, he further asserted that it is the “moral imperative” of NATO to put an end to the atrocities. (Clinton 1999a) Similarly, Secretary Albright emphasized the human factor by referring to the need to promote stability and basic human decency on European soil based on a “collective conscious” shared by all those nations who value peace and humanity (Albright 1999a). Throughout the early stages of NATO’s campaign, however, Clinton’s rhetoric did not explicitly expound the broader implications or normative precedents that may be established by the absence of a direct UN Security Council mandate.

In Bosnia, UN peace keeping forces were already on the ground, but not doing a very good job.