WORKING WITH RUSSIA IS KEY TO NATO'S SUCCESS IN THE BALKANS.(Editorial)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | June 16, 1999 | Copyright

For many years the standard quip about NATO was that NATO existed to ``keep the Germans down, the Americans in (Europe), and the Russians out.'' In light of NATO's U.S.-led victory in Kosovo, though, that old cliche is going to have to be adapted. NATO's new mission is ``to keep the Balkans quiet, the Americans in and the Russians sweet.''

No one planned it this way, but managing the bloody turmoil in the Balkans, not the Eastern Front, and managing the zany, unpredictable weakness of Russia, not its strength, have now emerged as NATO's primary missions. Ever since ...

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