Elisabeth Brocking

Elisabeth Brocking spent 22 years in the US Foreign Service, focusing on interethnic conflicts in the Balkans and post-Soviet states. Views expressed are entirely her own.

Syria isn’t Kosovo and this isn’t 1999. Not even close

Grasping at vague notions of Kosovo as a ‘good war’ may be expedient - any precedent will do in a pinch. But this comparison is inaccurate and dangerously misleading.

By Elisabeth Brocking

/ 13 Sep 2013