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To: jbe who wrote (34017)	4/9/1999 1:58:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (2) of 108807

I've been reading a bit about the presumed historical parallels between Viet Nam and the Balkans, but they don't seem at all parallel to me. It seems to me that in Viet Nam there was first and foremost a political and economic revolution whose aim was to rid the country of the last vestiges of colonialism. But it seems to me that the Balkan situation is a continuation of a thousand year old history of tribal warfare. That leads me to believe that there is a solution, but involves limited sovereignty, not defeat of the Serbs. How can we continue to act on the premise that only one side has blood on its hands? Didn't the KLA initiate some fairly bloody action against the Serbs? And are Albanian hands clean? And at what point does the reckoning begin in determining who did what to whom? And what of the larger issue? We meddled in the affairs of foreign governments, destabilized regimes with which we were at odds, and created monsters in the process. Do we so easily forget Cambodia and Afghanistan? Is there a lesson to be learned? I would love to read your response to these thoughts. TTFN, CTC

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