The internet movie, Fitna, was available March 27th, around seven in the evening Netherlands time. By ten at night, the prime minister of the country had already appeared on television condemning the film and declaring it deplorable. He complimented Muslims for their fair reaction. He did so in Dutch, and English. Newspaper Trouw even topped that by having its next-day editorial published in Arabic. March 29th the Internet provider had to remove the film overwhelmed by threats. Download PDF Descargar PDF

If there has been one thing well done regarding the management of the Kosovo crisis, it has been time management. The United States was not in a hurry; it clearly made its move; it reached its objective without too much resistance. Nevertheless, this does not hide the truly relevant fact that NATO’s member states have failed in Kosovo; the intervention has not reached its objectives and now it all comes down to withdrawal of the troops as soon as possible. Download PDF

In 1991, as the Balkans were disintegrating, the then-Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Jacques Poos, proclaimed: “This is the hour of Europe. It is not the hour of the Americans.” It was (presumably) his way of saying that European governments had a responsibility to intervene in a crisis that threatened the stability of Europe. Download PDF

Albert Wohlstetter, better than al-most any other American strategic thinker, understood Slobodan Mil-osevic, the Serbian dictator who died at The Hague where he was on trial for genocide. Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 1995, Wohl-stetter drew a direct line between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the Balkan butcher: "The successful coalition in the Gulf War . . . left in place a Ba'ath dictatorship . . . .That told Slobodan Milosevic, who is not a slow learner, that the West would be even less likely . . . to stop his own overt use of the Yugoslav Fed-eral Army to create a Greater Serbia purged of non-Serbs." Download PDF Descargar PDF

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