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If a Milosevic knew with reasonable certainty that ethnic cleansing would be prevented and punished, he might not attempt it.
Maksoud, a former Arab League diplomat now heading the Center for the Global South at the American University in Washington, noted a "frightening and obscene" convergence between Serbia's ethnic cleansing and the behavior of NATO, which has taken international law into its own hands.
In answer to former Secretary of State James Baker's view that we didn't have a dog in that fight, he asserts the United States had a Samaritan's obligation to stop ethnic cleansing.
In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.
Ever since the United States began contemplating doing something about war and ethnic cleansing in the collapsing state of Yugoslavia in 1991, all sides have invoked history as a guide to action.