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The modest national effort exerted to contain Serbia and its depredations in the Balkans between 1995 and 1999, for example, was orders of magnitude larger than that devoted to al Qaeda.
It also reinforced its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus.
The subject of that memo was Bosnia, and while Ambassador Albright emerged as the administration's leading hawk on a number of fronts, arguing for intervention in Haiti and in Rwanda, she made the case for how the United States should take the lead--by threatening and, if necessary, using force--with special passion about the American role in the Balkans.
The story he tells is really about performing a kind of jujitsu with his own personality, channeling his dubious personal qualities--his bullying, his egomania, and his impatient ambition--toward the noble (and perhaps Nobel) end of peace in the Balkans.
"There is no grand plan for the Balkans, neither in America nor anywhere else," he said.