Fred Kaplan critiques the Peter J. Boyer article on General Wes Clark:
[H]e portrays Clark as not only maneuvering around the chiefs in his advocacy, but also as drawing a lackadaisical Clinton White House—distracted by domestic troubles over Monica Lewinsky—into war. In fact, however, Clinton may have been distracted somewhat, but Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was not. Albright was a fiery supporter of military intervention in the Balkans (many have written of the famous meeting where she appalled the reticent chiefs by saying, "What good are all these fine troops you keep telling us about if we can't use them?"). Albright was the prime mover; many observers at the time—supporters and critics alike—called it "Madeleine's war." And her prime collaborator, Richard Holbrooke, Clinton's envoy to Bosnia, also enjoyed direct access to the president.
I remember opposing the NATO intervention in Kosovo on sovereignty grounds, an opposition I've now come to regret. Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-95 by Joe Sacco is the only book I've read on the war, and it only deals with a specific event in the war. The book helped change my opinion and the regret of my former opinion is partly responsible for my support of the intervention in Iraq. (I still support intervention in Iraq, by the way. It's still a war, and securing Iraq post-invasion hasn't exactly been a cakewalk, but it's far from a quagmire.)
