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clinton went to congress, both houses, and said, there are human rights atrocities going on in central europe, i want the united states to be part of a nato force to bomb kosovo to end these and hopefully get a peace treaty from the serbs. senate said yes, house said no. it was a couple months after he had been impeached. so that was the atmosphere. he went ahead anyway, got some financing from congress. 78 days resulted in a peace treaty, was successful. he did get that done. in retrospect, because that was a success and he did go to congress, my guess is that if the president does decide to do this after a defeat in congress, he and his people may be looking to the kosovo precedent. well, a lot of parallels have been drawn to kosovo and that intervention in yugoslavia in 1999. gallup did some polling showing the level of support for action in syria stands only at 36%.