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To: Neocon who wrote (9323)	5/21/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (2) of 17770

DD - I agree - that's why I said our 'ex-enemies and enemies'. In answer to the rest of your post the thing that stinks about the R. Accord was the shotgun stance - 'sign something which we know you can't or we'll bomb you'. All of this was done with the knowledge that it would lead to a hugely magnified disaster - for which we had no plan whatsoever - and we're still making it up by the seat of the pants after all this time. As for what would have happened if we'd taken a different tack - we can't possibly know. I went to an interesting lecture a couple of weeks back by a U.of T. Professor whose name I can't now recall - but he is an acknowledged expert on the Soviet Union and ex-soviet block - and it opened my eyes to the position the Serbs were placed in - and his insights into the stance taken by Albright were interesting - a shaky hold on her job - fearful of Holbrook getting at least the job of Ambassador to the UN - and overcompensating at the R. meetings by being as macho as all get out - terming Milosev as a 'school yard bully who would come to heel after a few days of bombing'. d

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