Kosovo NATO
The United States’ support and strong push for NATO to become involved in the “Crisis in Kosovo” was not beneficial and the United States ended the war with difficult new responsibilities, damaged foreign relations and a loss in NATO’s credibility. ... Another problem with American support was that NATO’s prestige and credibility was brought down. After the conflict, the United States and NATO were perceived as political bullies and their relations with many countries were weakened. ... The goal of NATO and America was to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Albanians by Milosevic and the Serbs. ... America did not obtain any constructive benefits from the “Crisis in Kosovo” and instead lost money and resources. ... America was also responsible for rebuilding Kosovo, which was a ruined country after the bombing raids. Overall, there was clearly no gain for America in the “Crisis in Kosovo.” The crisis ended in more responsibilities and damaged relationships, while America and NATO’s goal to save the Albanians was never really achieved. The goal of the United States/NATO intervention in Kosovo was to stop Milosevic and the Serbians from ethnically cleansing the Albanians out of Kosovo. Javier Solana, NATOs secretary general said, “NATOs mission in Kosovo is centered on the people.” In order to consider Kosovo ethnically cleansed the Serbs wanted all Albanians removed from Kosovo. ... As bombings began in Kosovo and across Yugoslavia, anti-American/NATO sentiments flared throughout Yugoslavia and the ethnic cleansing was intensified. The Serbs, instead of fearing NATO, more fiercely and rapidly killed the Albanians. ... Robert Hayden, Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh said, "The casualties among Serb civilians in the first three weeks of the war are higher than all of the casualties on both sides in Kosovo in the three months that led up to this war, yet those three months were supposed to be a humanitarian catastrophe." The United State’s and NATO’s involvement in this crisis through military action led to the slaughter of many more Albanians than was necessary to end the conflict. ... Kosovo was devastated by the retaliation. Therefore, the United States/NATO strikes caused many more lives and many more people to be driven from their homes when the original goal of the United States/NATO intervention was to save the Albanians lives. ... The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was set up in order to protect the numerous allies involved against communist ideology. ... None of the nineteen countries involved in NATO were threatened by the conflicts in Kosovo between the Albanians and the Serbs; yet NATO still intervened. NATO spokesmen said at the Declaration of Brussels in 1983, "Our Alliance threatens no one. ... " The conflict in Kosovo never threatened the allies of NATO in anyway. There was clearly a change in NATO foreign relations and the rest of the world dislike the change. America pushed for the Kosovo intervention more strongly than all other countries involved in NATO, while the rest of the world frowned upon these actions.