intellectuals who should have known better with advanced training and degrees from ivy league institutions seemed to accept these very simplified accounts of what actually happened. indeed, you ll see some really very intelligent people, a slovenian social theorist basically said and i m paraphrasing him yugoslavia was over the moment milosevic became president of serbia, you know, as if all the problems were caused by this one individual. .. in a certain sense of the term i guess he could call its actions in afghanistan and invasion. as you could also in the case of kosovo, and that is forced entry to read and so yes, this was a form of invasion. there s no question that at least the iraq and kosovo actions were violations of international law in the sense that they were done without getting approbation from the u.n. security council vote in the case of afghanistan there was a security council resolution that was a legal basis for the military option in that case and the