Archive [May 1999]

“I have tried to help build a world that was more peaceful, more prosperous and more secure.” — Bill Clinton, to American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/15/99, one day after 75 people were reportedly killed when a NATO bomb struck a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees.

American troops are currently deployed in 58 countries. To put this in perspective: there were 10 deployments in the 40 years from 1950-1989; there have been 32 deployments from 1990-1999. Indeed, Army operations have increased 300 percent since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Major military operations under Clinton: Operation Uphold/Restore Democracy (Haiti); Operation Continue Hope (Somalia); Operation Safe Border (Peru and Ecuador); Operation Laser Strike (South America); Operation Northern Watch (Iraq); Operation Infinite Reach (Sudan); Operation Desert Strike (Iraq); Operation Desert Fox (Iraq); Operation Deliberate Force (Bosnia); Operation Joint Forge (Bosnia); Operation Sustain Hope (Albania and Macedonia); Operation Allied Force/Determined Force/Noble Anvil (Yugoslavia).