They faulted him for letting European leaders veto bombing targets and rule out ground troops. Don't define yourself merely by your enemy. For decades, the Republican Party preached military strength in the face of foreign expansionism. But now that a Democratic president whom they despise has led the nation into war, GOP leaders have adopted the arguments of the counterculture. By forsaking their intellectual heritage just to spite Clinton, they have paid him the ultimate homage.
History defies laws.
Political analysts pretend to explain the past and predict the future with the same certainty as natural scientists. None of these theories panned out in Kosovo. That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change. Surveillance and air power are vastly more sophisticated than in previous wars, NATO has a far greater power monopoly in Europe than Hitler had, and in Kosovo, unlike in Vietnam, the isolated party in the war was not the United States but its enemy. Those who were too cynical to challenge the ways of the world, too preoccupied with the past to see the present, and too obsessed with who was wrong to recognize what was right.