Instead, Milosevich has driven 500,000 ethnic-Albanian workers into the worst European refugee crisis since World War II, and is stronger than ever. Cracks are deepening in the NATO alliance. Every Balkan country is now threatened by imperialist and civil war, which could spread to Greece and Turkey. Either one could mean a serious defeat for U.S. imperialism. Dislodging them will take five times that number, with heavy U.S. casualties.
Victory is far from certain.
Greek bosses have refused to be used as a staging ground for such an invasion. The other possibility is a Russian-brokered deal that would divide Kosovo between Milosevich and U.S. allies. This would leave the oil rivalry between U.S. and Russian rulers unresolved, and would hand the Russians a major political victory another catastrophe the Clinton gang wanted to avoid. This would only postpone U.S. involvement in a ground war. U.S. working class troops political commitment to imperialism is shaky at best.