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Kosovo and the Critics

When the initiation of the bombing campaign against Serbia did not lead to an immediate cessation of the attacks on the Kosovars, critics were quick to declare that NATO had failed. In fact, the apparent acceleration of Milosevic's assault in Kosovo and the efforts to pursue ethnic cleansing against the Albanian majority were interpreted as a direct result of the NATO campaign: as if the alliance and ultimately the US and Clinton were directly responsible for the displacements and killings. Now we know that this accusation was a textbook case of post hoc ergo propter hoc: Milosevic had long...