Linking to Instapundit is a true coals-to-Newcastle endeavor. But holy cow, Glenn hits a home run with this one. It seems that "No smoking gun" has been found in Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial. The InstaPundit suggests:
No doubt we'll see handwringing, doubts about intelligence reliability, and charges that the Clinton Administration "sexed up" intelligence and misrepresented
Milosevic as a genocidal dictator in order to build support for unilateral action that even Wesley Clark called technically illegal -- but justified on the basis of an "imminent threat" of genocide, one that is now, of course, completely undermined by the absence of a "smoking gun." Massive criticism of the Clinton Administration's warmaking, which landed us in a "Balkan quagmire" from which we have yet to extricate ourselves, is sure to ensue.
Yeah, right, that's going to happen.
For the record, I have come to believe that it was a good idea for the US to intervene. President Clinton and Secretary Albright did the right thing.
Posted by jk at February 26, 2004 03:23 PMMore correct to say "little hand wringing from the left." I recommend "Left Hooks and Right Crosses" by Christophers Hitchens and Caldwell. Hitchens's half makes a principled case for the Balkan intervention from Susan Sontag and some of her fellow travellers. Good stuff that increased my respect for many on the left.
Posted by: jk at February 26, 2004 03:39 PM