O/T Thanks a million, DickMN
Well done for finding them and -yes- they make up for some good reading.
I'm not entirely sure how credible his explanation is about his supposedly first-hand information about a planned plot to discredit Clinton (...operation "Monica"?... I might have suspected J. Edgar Hoover to set up such a thing, but he's dead, isn't he...)
The sections about the war in Yugoslavia are interesting and not without a point, but it/he (deliberately - I believe) omit to address one problem: What exactly might have been gained by continuing negotiations with Milosevic?
A hobby of mine is to study the contemporary history of the Balkans and I'd say from what I've read about the Cyprus conflict (the current president of the Greek Cypriots, Glafcos Klerides wrote a four volume autobiography that I've bought and read) suggest that to the extend that clear parallels can be drawn between the situation on Cyprus in the sixties and early seventies and that in Serbia/Kosovo between 1990 and 1998/99, continuing negotiations with Milosevic, rather than drawing a line beyond which, force would be committed, would have played entirely into the hands of Milosevic - indeed I believe it was what he was striving for and gambled that the international community would be unable to come to a unanimous agreement about any show of force.
Looking back at the Cyprus conflict, it was allowed to protract over 11 years, because so-called "attempts" to settle the conflict by negotiations. Reading from Klerides memoires, it's all but obvious that these negotiations had one sole purpose - to prolong the inflicted suffering of the Turkish Cypriot community to a point where they'd be forced to accept any dictated "settlement" by the nationalist leadership of Cyprus, headed by archbishop Makarios, while keeping up a brave face towards the outside world ("look, we're negotiating - so leave us alone"). Klerides descriptions of this in his memoires are likely fairly precise - he was the chief negotiator of the Greek Cypriots at the time... (whilest at the same time in charge of arranging illegal weapon imports to Greek Cypriot controlled militias, deathsquads, set up by the political leaders and in fact headed by the top brass of the Greek Cypriot political leadership, including the, then, interior minister and minister of public order).
I will probably need to buy Yeltsin's autobiography as well, to keep me updated.
Thanks again
KD