A war run by former pacifists for idealistic reasons, and conditioned by the study of public opinion polls, is likely to be even more disastrous than wars usually are. War is not an optional extra of diplomatic policy,or a gesture of irritation at being unable to impose ones own power. Least of all is war a good way of making peace.
Most wars leave their original objectives far behind.
Already Nato's original objectives of enforcing the Rambouillet agreement and preventing the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo are dead and almost forgotten. The diplomatic, military and political strategies have all been misconceived. The Balkans have been at war for as long as human history has been recorded, and Balkan wars have an equally long record of atrocities. The only prolonged periods of peace have been those in which a strong empire has imposed stability. The Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Soviet empires were able in their time to keep the peace in the Balkans, but when each of these empires went into decline, the ethnic wars started again.