‘The Kosovo Dilemma’ goes astray

‘The Kosovo Dilemma’ goes astray

The 1999 NATO-led bombing against Serbia was a humanitarian intervention, not a U.S. and European power grab

By Paul Hockenos

June 25, 2008

As for international law, while it is true that the campaign happened without UN Security Council approval, it was waged in the name of universal human rights, which is also part of international law. Three years of UN inaction and half-hearted measures in Bosnia served as a fig leaf for Western powers that wanted no part of that war — and it resulted in disaster. Finally, by 1999, the major western countries stopped making excuses and responded to Slobodan Milosevic with the only language he would listen to, namely the force of arms, and with the only multilateral force at the West’s disposal, NATO.

http://www.newageislam.com/%E2%80%98the-kosovo-dilemma%E2%80%99-goes-astray/islam-and-human-rights/d/528