Milosevic and Clinton
Mailer's 1,500-word Washington Post op-ed (24 May 1999) criticizing the Clinton administration's Kosovo bombing campaign and arguing that Milosevic had outmaneuvered Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
“Milosevic and Clinton,” Mailer’s 1,500-word op-ed for the Washington Post (24 May 1999, A25), criticizes the Clinton administration’s Kosovo bombing campaign and argues that the “canny” Slobodan Milosevic had duped Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Mailer explores “the visceral difference between a combat devoted uniquely to bombing” and a ground war, with characteristic asides on the corporation, plastic, and politics.
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