On Tuesday, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, currently awaiting confirmation of his appointment by President Clinton as Ambassador to the United Nations, visited Choate. Accompanied by his wife, author Kati Marton, who addressed a small group of students about the Holocaust, Ambassador Holbrooke spoke to the school about the humanitarian and political crisis in Kosovo. Prior to his lecture, Ambassador Holbrooke spoke to News Editor Charlotte Dewar 00 about the situation in the Balkans. NATO definitely has plans but nobody can predict how long exactly this air war will continue or what its exact outcome will be.
Wars don t go according to plan.
If they did they wouldn t be wars. So NATO has plans but the plans don t tell you what s going to happen. NATO is now at war for the first time. It has troops in Bosnia, Albania and Macedonia and will eventually have troops in Kosovo, but under what conditions, it s not clear. NATO is undertaking responsibility for bringing stability to the Balkans much the way it did to central Europe after WWII and in the fifties.