Churls Before Swine

The Wall Street Journal editorial page, never one to give credit when it is due an ideological foe, notes today that ousting the late Slobodan Milosevic was a really good thing:

For too long, U.S. officials convinced themselves the Balkan wars resulted from implacable hatreds and nationalism rather than Milosevic's autocratic ambitions. But when NATO finally used force--with U.N. support in Kosovo only after the fact--his regime fell and the furies ended.

Predictably the revisionists in the Journal's ivory tower fail to acknowledge that it was a president by the name of Clinton who compelled NATO to act and put the full weight of the U.S. air forces at its disposal.