The first President Bush did that in the 1991 Gulf War. He used his personal rapport with Mikhail Gorbachevto keep the Soviet Union, then in its dying days, from casting a veto in the Security Council. TheClinton administration was marked by a series of conflicts, different in many respects but all with the commondenominator that the U.S. took the lead in threatening and applying force. In each of these conflicts, withthe U.S. in the lead, the UN and other global or regional bodies provided the cover of internationalparticipation in the military operation and in the nation-building that followed: the invasion of Haiti in1994, which expelled a military junta and restored a democratically elected president; the use of air strikesagainst the Serbs in Bosnia in 1995, which forced them to the negotiating table; and the bombing of Serbia in1999, which ended ethnic cleansing and established a NATO-enforced, UN-supervised protectorate in Kosovo - andwhich also led to the end of Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship and to his current trial for war crimes in TheHague.