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Originally posted by uranidiot
NATO did the job in Kosovo, and could well have done it in Iraq if need be.
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I'm glad Clinton went to NATO. I think that was pretty smooth. Russia would have vetoed that and it shows much more savvy than Bush did in going to the UN.
But remember how angered Greece was saying Clinton was using NATO for a reason it wasn't intended? Remember the "Clinton is Hitler" posters being paraded through the streets of Athens. When Clinton was in Greece that year there was a subpoena to bring him to trial for war crimes (ignored). Ahh, yeah and of course the Clinton administration themselves insisted they had a right to act unilaterally in Iraq or Kosovo if needed.
Remember too the charge at the time by many that without UN approval the Kosovo campaign was illegitimate.
You're being a revisionist if you suggest that Clinton was multilateralist. I'm sure you can find some old net articles talking about "the dangers of Clinton's unilateralism" and his "undermining of the international system".
Don't believe me. Look it up.
And oh, yeah. I supported Kosovo and Iraq 1998.