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The Mladic Puzzle

By S. Trifkovic (Chronicles)
Friday, 10 Jun 2011

 


The circumstances surrounding the arrest of the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, General Ratko Mladić, seem puzzling. In the closing months of his life. he will now have to endure a show trial at The Hague, where his guilt for genocide, crimes against humanity etc. is treated as a long-established fact.


The Liberal Hawks' Neoconservative Allies

By S. Trifkovic (Chronicles)
Tuesday, 12 Apr 2011


The problem with President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is that he combines the broad ideological assumptions of liberal interventionists with a leadership style that allows people more doctrinaire than he to dominate the internal debate and decision-making process. Libya is the product of his disinclination to reject interventionism in principle, and his simultaneous inability to oppose the liberal hawks in practice.