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• Debate: International military intervention in Darfur, pro.

The case of NATO in Kosovo in 1999

• Lance Selfa. "Can U.S. military intervention ever bring justice?." Socialist Worker.org. May 19, 2006 - "There were about 45,000 refugees when the war began. By its end, there were 800,000. Less than 10 percent of the total war expenditure was spent on refugees, with the rest--about $4 billion--spent on bombing Yugoslavia.

More than 16,000 NATO troops patrol the province today. Nevertheless, NATO has stood by repeatedly while Albanian extremists harassed and murdered ethnic Serbs. Thousands of UN and NGO nation-builders provide the only stable source of employment in the province. While thousands of Kosovars remained homeless, the U.S. military finished building its permanent Camp Bondsteel headquarters in 2000.

LET’S KEEP all of this in mind when we hear U.S. officials pledge that they are concerned about stopping 'genocide' in Darfur. Since when has the U.S. gone to war without proclaiming some lofty and idealistic-sounding reason for it?"

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