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His major political achievement has been cleansing the Democrats of their previous, not-unjustified image as the pro-dole party.
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.
Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate produced: ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.
Meanwhile, the alleged architects of "ethnic cleansing"--Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic--are still free.
France's leading newspaper, Le Monde , said in an editorial Wednesday that the French government has "good and solid reasons" for not wanting to accept the Kosovars--that to do so would be to condone "ethnic cleansing" and to play Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's game.