| | Washingtonpost.com: Europe Follows American Lead |
 | | The first attack on a sovereign nation in NATO's 50-year history has been anointed "Operation Allied Force" to project an image of shared responsibility, but while 13 of its 19 members have contributed aircraft, and eight participated in the first bombing wave, there is universal recognition that U.S. firepower is salvaging European security. |
 | | "Europe is an economic giant, a political dwarf and a military worm," said Mark Eyskens, a former Belgian foreign minister, as he reviewed the failure of European powers to halt the wars in Croatia and Bosnia that pitted Serbian nationalists against factional rivals earlier this decade. |
 | | After each of these, European Union leaders vowed to defend their interests by establishing a common foreign and security policy that would match Europe's commercial clout. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/europe032699.htm (1214 words) |