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Television makes these images all the more graphic, and vividly demonstrates the impotence of the NATO alliance. At home, the backdrop to this is that the United States has developed a peculiar doctrine in the aftermath of Vietnam. American soldiers may not be put in harm's way. Despite a huge military and an ever-increasing mili- tary budget, each time the military is about to be used, an array of forces on the right and the left protest American action. The military, they seem to argue, must not be placed in the line of fire even if the results are the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives from death and starvation. Only a few years ago, our military evacuated American citizens in Rwanda. It left before the genocide. But volunteers from international relief agencies stayed to assist the vic- tims while armed soldiers from Belgium and France fled before the slaughter. In this post-Holocaust world, we must realize that the burdens of being a superpower are precisely the burdens of the exercise of power. So I think that President Clinton was right to use force. Remember, Milosevic eventually has responded to force in the past and capitulated to Western pressure. In Bosnia, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke succeeded at Dayton only after the United States demonstrated a willingness to bomb. Still, Kosovo may be much more complicated. Military and political experts are rightfully doubtful that air power alone will alter ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. In the short-term, the bombing will strengthen Milosevic's popularity in Serbia; his opponents must rally around him because Kosovo is an issue of vast emotional and religious importance to Serbians. An analogy to Jerusalem and the Jews is common. So what if the bombing does not create an opening for diplomacy? Force creates its own logic and its own problems. For the bombing to be credible, it must be sustained and intense. It must clearly indicate to Milosevic's military that there is a price to be paid for ethnic cleansing. Must ground troops follow? Perhaps. Should we arm the ethnic Albanians to defend themselves? Perhaps. Bombing is not a simple option, nor a zero sum game. It causes conse- quences. It demonstrates that the West regards current behavior as intolerable. And I believe that all this is for the good — or to be more pre- cise, demonstrably against evil. Surely, it is much better than the silence of the Allies regarding the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem. That is why President Clinton and our NATO allies have my support for this mili- tary action. 17 About The Author and gallery Your neighborhood store for twenty years. Michael Berenbaum, Ph.D., is a prominent Holocaust scholar and author. Together with Michael Neufeld, he edited a forthcoming book The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (St. Martin's Press). He is the author of 10 books, including After Tragedy and Triumph: Essays In Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1991). His work as co-producer of the movie One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story, was recognized with an Academy Award, an =Arts & Entertainment 4/2 1999 Advertise in our Arts & Entertainment Section! Call The Sales Department (248) 354- 7123 Ext. 209 24 Detroit Jewish News DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 'TN Michael Berenbaum Emmy Award and a Cable ACE Award. His positions have included: project director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; director of the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute, and Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. V:AN*10*14*MASSIM?:',...):a3„VadookattakAWMAIES,WRIMMONEEMSNANASMMOOMMAI