Q. Was NATO right to intervene in Kossovo?

There are many ways in which humanitarian intervention is viewed as a quintessentially “liberal” foreign policy practice, from the fact that liberal-democratic states have the principle initiators and the important role accorded to international institutions and the traditionally liberal concern for human rights. The 1999 Kossovo crisis is not an exception. If you look at the military operations carried out by the English-speaking nations in the last twenty years, the successes have been those which were …

…doing is allowing the three communities to partition it among themselves, and keeping them away from each other's throats while they reach an agreement on how to do it. Of course, that would mean that the Western powers would have to stop treating the idea of multiculturalism as a sacred cow and face the fact that multicultural states usually do not work. The future of Bosnia depends on whether realism can triumph over political correctness.