D. Long,
Ya know, sometimes just sitting on the hands and
looking the other way is the best policy. In the
Sci Fi reality of "Star Trek", they had this law
that the members of the "Federation of Planets"
used to have to abide by. It was called the "Prime
Directive" and meant that you were not supposed
to interfere with cultures more primative than
your own. This was the path we chose with the
Hutu-Tutsi civil war that raged (and is still going)
throughout Ruwanda, Uganda, and Brundi. Over one
million people were shot, hacked to death, or killed
in some other fasion. Clinton considered some kind
of intervention and then decided not to do anything
about it. That was the best policy. They were all
guilty, just as in the Yugoslavian civil war, there
were no innocent parties. Some of the worst att-
rocities that have occured in the Balkans were
between the Moslims and Croatians. They took torture
and rape to an art form. From what I understand,
the hatred is now growing again between these two
groups and the fighting could break out again at
any moment. I wonder what NATO and Clinton would
do then? Bomb Muslims, Croats, or both?
-John
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