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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12182)	6/16/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Is sending 200 troops and change on a desert runway in Pristina the best way to shelter Kosovo's Serbian populace? OFF BASE!! The Russians are there to screw up NATO's peace-enforcing job. Period. Oh! BTW, you said the Russians are protecting the Serbs? No joking! The Russians themselves are protected by Serbian (para-)military! Just ask the Brit troops stationed in Pristina who's been preventing them from reaching the airport!

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12182)	6/16/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

The problem is, while NATO used the KLA, it did not share the KLA's goals. Despite what Serbs believe about Washington's insidious desire for a Greater Albania, for the Clinton administration, Kosovo was little more than a clumsy and distracted attempt to avoid the same condemnation it received for failing to respond to claims of genocide in Rwanda. Now it is caught in the potential hypocrisy of presiding over a reverse ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and the redrawing of the map of the region along ethnic lines. And even if mysterious dark forces in Washington have somehow duped the naïve Stratfor on this count, and Clinton actually flies the KLA flag in his bedroom, they have not changed the fact that NATO is not merely the U.S. It also includes countries like Greece and Italy, who with aspiring NATO member Macedonia are appalled at the prospect of either a KLA-dominated independent Kosova or a Greater Albania stratfor.com