If administration leaders really expected NATO airstrikes to accelerate the carnage in Kosovo, they should be indicted for war crimes. By Christopher Hitchens Broken contract Republicans find populism is easier when you don't have any power. By Jake Tapper Belgrade under siege NATO warplanes and missiles strike more strategic targets in and around the Yugoslav capital on the 11th night of bombing. Murdered by Milosevic At a dissident's funeral, Belgrade's democracy movement worries about its future. Henry James wrote darker novels about what happens when newly rich Americans enter the gilt drawing rooms of London and Rome, oblivious of ancient cynicism.
Human failure is, alas, universal.
Maybe our current adventure in Yugoslavia will teach us, if nothing else, to regard Europe, once and for all, without embarrassment of ourselves or awe. Maybe, after our planes get shot down and our soldiers killed, we will come to judge the continent of Mozart and Shakespeare as no better or worse than Asia or Latin America or Africa. It is a novel about a European who takes a journey down the Congo, to encounter an unspeakable horror. Today's heart of darkness lies at the far end of the Danube. And the savages have white skin.