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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (603)	10/8/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

Wag the Dog for Real? October 7, 1998 Defense Secretary, William Cohen, announced today that America might send ground forces to Kosovo. Has Hollywood really written this script? Will someone please show me how the conflict in Kosovo threatens the national security of the United States? This unfortunate situation has been going on in that region of the world for a thousand years. Neither side of the controversy has a monopoly on barbarism. Furthermore, have we forgotten that during World War II it was the Serbians that bravely fought and died to assist American forces? Serbia's past heroics are no excuse for modern day atrocity. Don't get me wrong. The point is there is much more to this situation. America is not going to settle a dispute that has been raging for ten millenniums. What we will do is become involved in another UN sponsored, no win war that will drain American energy and blood. To justify America's military involvement Mr. Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright argue we must stop the genocide that is taking place. They point to eighteen recently discovered bodies as evidence. Proof, they say, of the Serbians murderous activity. Moral outrage demands our intervention, they cry. Granted, any such activity is deplorable. However, where is Clinton's outrage over the genocide that has taken place in Sudan and other African nations? The Khartoum government has slaughtered millions of Sudanese. Women have been tortured, raped and killed. Children have been tortured and sold into slavery. (And not a peep from Jesse Jackson or Maxine Waters.) Men have been crucified. The carnage in Sudan is incomprehensible. Where is Clinton's call for U.S. intervention in Sudan or Rwanda, for that matter? Where is the moral outrage of this government for the poor, suffering souls of the Dark Continent? Are we to assume that this administration believes the white folks of Kosovo are worth more than the black people of Africa? Or, are we dealing with a real live "Wag the Dog"? When the President of the United States asks the mothers and fathers of America to send their sons and daughters into harm's way it is only right that they are able to trust his word. There is the rub. How can we trust this president? When he tells us he must send our children to sacrifice their lives in a far off war how can we know his motive is not to cover his own political backside? The truth is no one trusts Bill Clinton. The American public does not trust him. Our military personnel do not trust him. Our allies don't trust him. Our enemies don't trust him. His closest friends don't even trust him. And now he expects our finest and best to risk his or her life in a conflict no one can prove is necessary to the national interest of America. One who does have a personal interest in this distraction, however, is Bill Clinton. Would he dare risk the lives of our children to save his own political career? Time magazine may have already provided the answer. "Many believe this is a man that would do anything." From the Chuck Wagon: ..Food for Thought ..by Chuck Baldwin gulf1.com

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