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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (65631)	12/6/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You forgot to mention embassies...

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (65631)	12/6/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh, sounds simple enough. I wander why they don't just do it?

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (65631)	12/6/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Jim, far be it from me to defend the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. But even at that, it cannot be compared to the bombing of Chechnya, and specifically of Grozny. It's a question both of degree and of intention. As Sergei Kovalyov put it recently: "Our government is using NATO's methods to achieve Milosevich's objectives." Actually, the first part of that grim little witticism is no longer applicable. The Russians have given up even the pretense of delivering NATOesque "precision strikes." There's practically nothing left standing in Grozny, and what little there is is not likely to withstand the coming blitz with aerosol bombs and the like. A Russian reporter whom I know from my Chechen War days just visited Belgrade. "Wow," he tells me, "it still looks like a real city! Now that was precision bombing! Our boys aren't capable of it." In other words, in Belgrade, there are destroyed buildings here and there, but he said it did not look like a devastated city. But where Grozny is concerned, you'd have to go back to WW II to see anything comparable. And surely you are joking when you say "all the Chechnyans have to do is turn over the Muslim terrorists to the Russians and the Russians will go home." Sure, that little old Russian babushka starving in her corner over there will get together with Makhmud, who had a leg blown off in the last air raid, and with a couple of orphaned toddlers, and they will go up to Khattab and his boys, draped in weaponry from head to toe, surround them, and turn them over to the Russians! Because that's what the reality is like, Jim! These people have been terrorized by the guys with the guns on both sides, and they are the ones who are supposed to clean up the mess??!!>?? Joan