(February 20, 2016 at 12:31 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Back in the early 80ies, I didn't participate in the peace marches because they didn't include the Soviets but only the Americans in their to blame list. Today I consider most interventions to be bad. Most, but not all. I would be hard pressed to name even a single American intervention after WWII to be justified. Not even against former Yugoslavia in 1999, since the Kosovarian UCK was as much at fault as the Serbian forces. I didn't endorse European NATO intervention back then either.
Most US interventions were driven by interests, or, as you say, by global pressure to intervene. The US didn't have any real interests in Kosovo.