Abstract

While declaring victory, Washington did not yet declare peace : the bombing continues until the victors determine that their interpretation of the Kosovo Accord has been imposed. From the outset, the bombing had been cast as a matter of cosmic significance, a test of a New Humanism, in which the "enlightened states" open a new era of human history guided by "a new internationalism where the brutal repression of whole ethnic groups will no longer be tolerated". The enlightened states are the United States and its British associate, perhaps also others who enlist in their crusades for justice