The history of Clinton's war and Bush's war have a discomfiting similarity. The Hillary/billary views of that war and Kosova are quite chilling; but Obama's military advisers are not a comforting idea in this setting either. Obama calls for bottom up democracy; here is an area that begs for demanding respect for international law.

Average journalism because of the use of phrases like "followed by seven years of Bush's overt hostility toward the lower 98 percent of Americans who aren't part of his base."; one, Bush's 'base' consists of more than 2% of american's and two, the issue goes beyond a singular individual. It could have been a much better piece of journalism if had pointed out the impact of the Supreme Court decision in First National Bank of Boston versus Bellotti, in 1978 and Thom Hartmann's ... More »

This is a rarely heard perspective on our intervention in Kosovo that certainly gets me to think twice about whether it was a wise move. I know that there is another perspective on whether we should have intervened that Jeremy does not discuss, and I suggest that anyone interested listen to the debate between him and Samantha Power on Friday's Democracy Now. Also read her book, "Problem from Hell" (about America's response to genocide). However, I find Scahill very persuasive -- ... More »

The emotion and the attitude drown out the data and the analysis. Would have been more informative--and more powerful--with fewer and calmer words.

This opinion piece provides the author's personal viewpoint but has minimal journalistic content. The author has provided an analysis according to his own biases but does not give much information and makes no effort at balancing different viewpoints.