For some Kosovars. NATO has made things worse." Pat M. Holt. a foreign affairs expert writing in the Christian Science Monitor. wrote. "The first few days of bombing have led to more atrocities and to more refugees. It will be increasing the instability which the bombing was supposed to prevent." l 2030 Philip Gourevitch. writing in the April 12 New Yorker Magazine. said: "Yet so far the air war against Yugoslavia has accomplished exactly what the Americanled alliance flew into combat to prevent: Our bombs unified the Serbs in Yugoslavia. as never before. behind the defiance of Milosevic. they spurred to a frenzy the cleansing of Kosovos ethnic Albanians by Milosevics forces. they increased the likelihood of the conflicts spilling over into Yugoslavias southBalkan neighbors. and they hardened the hearts of much of the nonWestern world against usnot least in Russia. where passionate antiAmericanism is increasing the prospects for the rightwing nationalists or the Communist Party to win control of the Kremlin and its nuclear arsenal in coming elections." Many conservative analysts have been very critical. Thomas Sowell wrote: "Already our military actions are being justified by the argument that we are in there now and cannot pull out without a devastating loss of credibility and influence in NATO and around the world.
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