he Serbs refused to accept the peace deal into two weeks of talks at Rambouillet. In mid-March, KLA accepted the peace deal, but the Serbs refused. Milosevic then escalated the crisis by launching another large-scale offensive in Kosovo. NATO’s current air strike’s today is the principal objective in stopping and bringing down Milosevic. “Up to a 100,000 ethnic Albanian men in Kosovo of fighting age have vanished and may have been killed by Serbian forces.” “Serbian forces have so far displaced 1.5 million ethnic Albanian men, women, and children in Kosovo”. “The air campaign is working, but not as quickly as we hoped”. “We have conditions we have to follow…especially the need to limit civilian casualties,” and those conditions “degrade our own military campaign”. The rules the NATO military leaders were handed were: first, no casualties on our side; second, no casualties on their side; and third, do it fast—before public opinion at home collapses completely. Ground troops are precisely what it would have taken from day one to achieve the West’s premier purpose: stopping mass slaughter and mass expulsion. The alliance went for bombing. To avoid being hit, NATO’s planes flew high, killing many of the civilians they came to protect. Ninety percent of Yugoslavia’s population is of Albanian rather than Serb origins. Kosovo enjoyed a high degree of autonomy in the old Yugoslavia. Milosevic revoked that autonomy in 1989 in keeping with his nationalist campaign for a “Greater Serbia.” Kosovo is the site of an historic defeat by the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century, so therefor it has great emotional significance to Serbian nationalists. The revoking of Kosovo’s autonomy sparked the current conflict. The Kosovo Liberation Army was founded in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital. The KLA, containing about 30,000...
