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The NYT says the crux of the Kosovo accord is a force of 2,000 on-the-ground international observers and NATO reconnaissance flights designed to monitor Milosevic's withdrawals of police and troops.
This really is the crux of the "necessary" argument: better to have fought and withdrawn than never to have fought at all.
The crux of the strategic controversy is whether an imperfect homeland defense could eliminate the deterrent and coercive impact of small rogue missile forces.
Summary is the crux of civilization.
And let's not omit Dowd's incisive summary of the moral and constitutional crux of the Clinton sex scandal, almost worthy of Oscar Wilde: "These are not grounds for impeachment; these are grounds for divorce."