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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