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He carefully calculated the rise of Vojislav Seselj, who calls for the ethnic cleansing of Serbia and has written tomes paying homage to militarism and fascism.
The scale of "ethnic cleansing" in response to the NATO air attacks caused widespread alarm in Europe, and the loss of the U.S.
This is a "very crude comparison," the paper commented: The case of the Basque country, with its advanced political autonomy, has nothing in common with "an open war and 'ethnic cleansing' against 90 percent of a territory."
If Milosevic continues the cleansing, said Clinton, he will suffer further costs: the devastation of his military and the loss of Yugoslavian sovereignty over Kosovo.
Nickles discounted the administration's demand that Yugoslavia halt its ethnic cleansing in order to halt NATO's bombardment: "Secretary Cohen says, 'Well, Mr. Milosevic has to do all these things, then we'll stop the bombing.