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To: goldsnow who wrote (15290)	11/15/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Goldsnow, I think I've eventually noticed a "discrepancy" between the Kosovo campaign and Russia's retaliatory war in Chechnya... Wanna know what it is? Just answer my quiz: How many times did you hear/listen/read/stumble on the NATO acronym in all the reports about Chechnya that have been released so far?? a) So many times that you've just been unable to track them all. b) Hardly ever. c) You've not noticed any Chechnya PR mentioning NATO yet. Get the picture? The most popular acronym so far is this OSCE stuff (ie the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and NATO --and incidentally the U.S.-- got turfed out! General A. Lebed was perhaps right about analyzing Kosovo as a European diplomatic failure but here comes the 'second round': Chechnya is poised to be a Kosovo sequel that will be mainly settled by European powers, that is Russia, France, and Germany. Of course, this doesn't mean European troops dispatched all over Chechnya: think of it as a humanitarian task force under a European leadership....