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Newsweek lambastes the president for "diplomatic errors and missed opportunities": Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they urged planning for the refugee crisis sure to come.
While doing everything they can to hamstring the American administration's ability to wage the war, they argue that the war can never be won, that the administration's claims to the contrary are lies, and that the United States should trim its absurd demands and bug out with whatever face-saving deal it can get.
And ever since, report the papers, the White House has been looking for a face-saving way to sign on.
But this potential face-saving way out of the crisis was dismissed in Monday's papers, which reported that no deal had been reached.
In November, the CSG discussed whether the sanctions had rattled the Taliban, who seemed "to be looking for a face-saving way out of the Bin Ladin issue."