Reply #96: Thank you for trying

[Time for change]

The two main books that I've read on the subject that I felt covered our involvement in the Bosnia and Kosovo wars pretty well (I've read others, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind the most) are War in a Time of Peace -- Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, by David Halberstam, and A Problem from Hell -- America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power. Both of these books made the case, in general, that our intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo was consistent with the values I noted in my original post to this thread. If anything, both authors felt that we should have intervened earlier in Bosnia, on a humanitarian basis, in order to better ameliorate the catastrophe that happened there.