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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.
But in the Jordanian daily al-Ra'i , Saleh Qallab argued that this fear is misplaced and should not be used as an excuse for Arabs to oppose the NATO action in the Balkans.
Nevertheless, even Preuss was pessimistic that such an outcome would occur since "[c]ommon sense and the ability to see all sides are qualities as plentiful in the Balkans, unfortunately, as they are in the Middle East " In an exclusive interview with Canada's Globe and Mail , Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, who is due to arrive in the United States Tuesday, said, in regard to the Kosovo conflict, that while China respects human rights, "we do not think that we can possibly disregard the sovereignty of a country in the world.
Realists regard Serbian resistance to NATO as a fact of life, an immovable constraint on American ambitions in the Balkans.
The death of Franjo Tudjman, the first president of independent Croatia, was also a big story in Europe, with some commentators seeing it as a positive development for peace in the Balkans.