The media will surely join the chorus of praise. In fact, NATO's air raids in Kosovo and their sequel underline the abject failure of American and European policy. The event exposes their pretensions to power as being devoid of the will to power, and their claims to a moral motivation as being hollow.
Success entails the attainment of defined objectives.
The other objective was to save the civilians of Kosovo from imminent 'ethnic cleansing', a recent euphemism for genocide. Whatever it 'achieves' in the future, NATO has failed to achieve its stated objectives. Within a week of the air strikes Milosevic had rendered Rambouillet a dead letter, and escalated his campaign of slaughter and expulsion. Entire villages and towns were destroyed or emptied of their inhabitants. Given that the super-power and its cherished alliance were at last locked in the tragedy, newspapers and television screens were filled all last week with horrid images of the carnage.