THE NATIONAL INTEREST

Published April 26, 1999 3:00am ET




The war in Kosovo is going badly. The Clinton administration has compounded its initial disastrous misjudgment of Slobodan Milosevic with an inadequate military strategy driven more by fear of negative polls than by the imperative of victory. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that General Wesley Clark has told senior administration officials that NATO can’t win without ground troops, but the Clinton administration continues to quake at the thought of a ground war.

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