U.S. Ambassador to Nations that Give a Damn

Published March 23, 2006 2:35pm ET



Kosovar Albanians don’t think much of the UN but they sure like the U.S. and NATO. This was abundantly clear when I was over there last August. They resented the fact that the UN Security Council sat on its hands while Milosevic’s forces rampaged throughout the province. They were also well aware that it was American leadership that moved other nations to ignore the Security Council and act against the Serb forces. Of course, back then Russia and China blocked UN action. The Russians had a soft spot for Milosevic, while the folks who brought us Tiananmen Square believed the killings, torched villages and mass exodus of Kosovar Albanians were an “internal” matter. Today, as this Wall Street Journal editorial points out, it’s more of the same:

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