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Pastimes : Kosovo
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10883)6/1/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Ron, I respect your views and agree that some action to reign in Milosovic is necessary- but economic sanctions or "carrots" and diplomatic pressure would have done the job I believe.

Now we have almost completely destroyed the Serbian Portion of Yugoslavia economically, caused thousands of Kosovars to be forced into refugee status, and spent billions upom a bombing campaign that has accomplished....? What? Milosovic is still in power- any UN-backed agrement will require Russian/Chinese concurrence and they will extract a "pound of flesh"- and also participate less than enthusiastically in any peacekeeping force. And this area will remain a festering geopolitical wound....

And yes- I find it discomfoting that the West sits idly by while 2,000,000 people are killed and thousands more women/children sold into slavery in the Sudan- yet leap into action when 2,000 people are killed (624 of whom were Serbian victims of KLA hit squads)in an area of the World where there has never been any US influence (Yes I agree with former President Carter's editorial recently in the New York Times)..

And as to geopolitical importance stability in Indonesia is much more critical to us (the USA) than the Balkans for a whole series of reasons....
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