No one even attempted an arrest. He writes in his memoirs of the administration's desire that the U.N. 'prove utterly ineffective' in its efforts to force an Indonesian withdrawal. I crashed it with the intent of nabbing the honored guest and whisking him off to The Hague. Graham greeted us at the door and said Henry left an hour ago to play tennis at Ted Koppel's. So we took a cab to Koppel's.
Foot soldiers are under enormous pressure to commit atrocities.
If their commander sees them wavering, it could be curtains. Privileged U.S. officials are under no such pressure. Or Reagan, Bush, Thatcher or Blair - remember, war crimes in East Timor may have waxed and waned, but they've never stopped, and the Brits have bloody hands, too. They were instrumental in keeping public opinion out of the equation in the crucial first months and years of Indonesia's occupation. Let's imagine Milosevic was a dependent U.S. ally and that America stepped up aid and apologetics as his forces stormed through Kosovo.