And maybe it will continue until the threat of exposure of Chinese espionage inside the White House is deemed to have passed. No matter what the results on the ground, at the very moment when Mr. Clinton's business allies and masters decide they have all the rebuilding contracts they can handle for a while, and presumably when his Swiss bank account has been sufficiently replenished, he will suddenly order the bombing stopped, declare victory and hail himself as a hero, ordering the ludicrous US media to join in the sycophantic applause. Perhaps he'll arrange a tickertape parade for himself down Fifth Avenue. As the rest of the world already knows, he is, of course, quite insane. It was actually Tony Blair who, writing in Newsweek this week, spelled out the real agenda.
Sovereignty becomes irrelevant.
So the concept of the nation state is superseded by the New World Order. If they can't get their way by persuasion, they will use bombs. We are fighting for a world where dictators are no longer able to visit horrific punishments on their own peoples in order to stay in power. It may be an idealistic and even well-intentioned notion. The only obstacle is the concept of the sovereign nation state.