To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (36275 ) 12/31/1999 4:22:00 PM From: Eddy Blinker Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 99985
Hip Hop and Be-Bop in Packey's Sports Bar Haim, My last posting which according to your reply left you "speechless" initiated a few E/Mailers to inquire about the word "JAZZ" in connection with global corruption. So instead of answering the mailers individually allow me to just say this. Gen Sir Michael Rose the commander of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia after stepping down wrote a worthwhile to read book in which he characterized the leaders in the bloody break up of Yugoslavia this way: "I have the utmost contempt for them because they were knowingly subjecting their populations to further war in order to pursue their own interests. Most of them seem to be driven by a need to line their own pockets as much as anything else." or when he mentioned: " They had been hijacked, there's no question about it. The State Department had been hijacked by a particularly manipulative group who were determined to bring the West into the war on behalf of the Bosnians. It may have been morally justifiable but it was a highly dangerous philosophy to develop." Well the good General did not understand "jazz" then, before Dayton and I did not understand what he meant by his mention of the "particular manipulative group". Until I familiarized myself with Mr.Holbrooke "ways to jazz". "Foreign policy is not architecture, no matter what Dr. Brzezinski and others like to compare it to. In architecture, you make a plan down to the last nut, the last bolt, the last stress beam, and then you build the thing. Foreign policy, in my view, is more like jazz; it's an improvisation on a theme, and you change as you go along." state.gov Or better yet I recommend to read Mr.Holbrooke^s book. After all he may be your next Secretary of State.booknotes.org Hoping to have cleared up the word "jazz" I wish you and the Mailers a prosperous selection year 2000. Regards Eddy Blinker