THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Saturday, June 2, 2001
Commentary
Rumsfeld is right
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/06/02/opinion/worth02.htm
Regarding the repeated hints from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
that the U.S. role in Bosnia may be over: The Dick Cheney-Rumsfeld axis
has no use for the Balkans and feels that the United
States did not have any real "job" in Bosnia to start with - so it's "done,"
whatever it may have been.
On the other hand, Secretary of State Colin Powell, who
soon may be the weakest secretary of state since William Rogers 30
years ago, uses multilateralism (including reiteration to NATO foreign
ministers in Budapest that "we went in together, we'll get out together") to
assert his claim to influence . . . Powell also appears to be far more
insistent on Serbia's compliance with the Hague Tribunal [international
court] than others. (Ditto his traveling to Africa and telling them how important it
is to the United States, which must have given Cheney/Rumsfeld a good laugh.)
"Bosnia" is a failed experiment that will unravel as soon as the assorted
nations involved close shop. However much I disagree with Rumsfeld on other
fronts (missile defense, NATO expansion, etc.), on this one he is
right.
Srdja Trifkovic is a foreign policy expert with The Rockford Institute
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