It's time for some political backbone How might a policy of safe havens work in Kosovo? Lieutenant General SIR ROBIN ROSS, a veteran of Operation Haven in Northern Iraq, says the problems have been overstated. What is needed is an end to Nato's dithering and a willingness to draw a line and warn the Serbs to cross it if they dare.

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: April 9, 1999| Author: Sir Robin Ross | Copyright information

FOR ALL sorts of good reasons, retired Generals should try to avoid the temptation to practise the self-indulgent art of armchair strategy. The pusillanimity of Nato - and by association the British Government - over the crisis in Kosovo cannot however be allowed to continue without comment.

Those who say that we should not be involved are of course talking nonsense. Whether we like it or not, we are involved, and hand- wringing is no solution. Neither is aerial bombardment on its own,...

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