The Lesser Evil: The Best Way Out of the Balkans
Mini Teaser: Unless the United States wants to occupy the Balkans for decades to come, it will have to contemplate withdrawal under imperfect and unappealing circumstances.
If there is a rationale for this option other than mindless inertia, it is a long-term tutelage designed to transform the local societies and allow eventual disengagement and durable peace. If a long period of neo-imperial tutelage has high odds of civilizing the locals and making the next generation willing practitioners of secular liberalism, it might be worthwhile to gamble on it, to view institutionalized temporizing as gradual behavior modification.
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