text: Even though Kosovo was the West 's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed , calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars pale in comparison with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone .
  
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  Rieff has written frequently about the merits of American foreign policy .