I don't KNOW. I do know what the speculation in the Balkans and a couple of places in the Levant is. Clinton, all the wag the dog stuff aside, which, by the way, people out there believe was his true motivation, simply didn't view the Serbs as Western or Christian in any sense he understood. Albright, Holbrooke and that pathetic sissy Nicky Burns all hate Orthodoxy, probably because they view it as Russian. All of them felt close to and trusted the Turks and the Turks wanted their old brothers in Kosovo taken care of. Remember that the whole Mohammedan Bosnian, Kosovo and Albanian problem is a remnant of the Ottoman empire. The belief with Bush is that he is simply a new world order globalist bought and paid for with Saudi oil money. The success of the new world order depends on the Saudis playing ball about oil. The Saudis exact a price, the expansion of Wahabism, for their cooperation. The globalists like Bush couldn't care less if Islam, which to them is represented by the nice Paki or Persian doctor they know, expands in the Balkans. In fact, if Christians get in the way anywhere, they will be dealt with permanently. Nothing to worry about there because the sort of Christian you are talking about isn't the sort your evangelical supporters recognize anyway. I'm not saying this is correct. It is what one hears even in government ministries over there though.
That sounds plausible. I remember that George H.W. Bush was chummy with Turgut Özal, and being familiar with the ties between the Albanians and the Turks, I figured that had to be at least part of the reason we were taking sides.
I have always thought that the collapse of the Soviet Union offered an opportunity, since squandered by both sides, to recognize common interests. Our Balkan escapades and Chechnyan interference, combined with Russian intransigence on Saddam, have divided what should have been a partnership against Islamic terror.