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To: freeus who wrote (7)	4/3/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) of 10

Hi freeus, I understand the complexity of the situation in the former Yugoslavia. Populations have been displaced there repeatedly since the Balkans War in the years immediately prior to WWI. In some cases it's almost impossible to ascertain who really belongs where, as if determining such were a goal that makes any sense. Milosevic is a dirtball to be sure. His goons have free run to murder and intimidate and burn and pillage. But he was not an entirely popular leader among the Serbs. Clinton made a huge mistake in thinking that strategic bombing would take care of the situation. The Serbs took heavy losses fighting the Germans a half-century ago. They have now been hardened against any cooperation with us and will follow Milosevic that much more readily. And the "ethnic cleansing" has accelerated. Why in the world did Clinton say there would never be ground troops? He left them with free reign. This thing could spiral out of control in unforseen ways. Terrorist measures as you have mentioned are a real possibility. Advanced anti-aircraft missiles from China or Russia may be smuggled in and what will our reaction be to losing pilots to these unfriendly third parties? We are so inured to all this here in the US. If we were the ones being bombed, you think we'd sit and take it or negotiate an end as fast as we could. Clinton's headlines of Chinagate and the Brodderick rape have disappeared with the start of the bombing campaign. How advantageous for him. It's all really sorry because a "quiet" Balkans would leave the area a tourist Mecca. They could have it so good there. But the overwhelming reality is that they are so used to the decades previous of not having it so well that apparently it doesn't matter as much as settling their ethnic differences once and for all. As for all your "more's"--I agree entirely. --Alan

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