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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35121)	9/6/2000 11:43:02 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 769667

How *did* Somalia wind up to be one of the world's largest stockpile of both American and Russian military hardware anyways??? It didn't feel to well for those soldiers over there facing heavy fire by weapons made where? -------> you guessed it ! brought to you by an old cold_war Intelligence Agency near you... they'll all be drinking six-packs somewhere over a texas barbeque and discussing those "good 'ol days ....they tamed the Soviet Empire <ggg>

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35121)	9/6/2000 11:59:29 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

First, Yugoslavia was not in the Soviet sphere. Second, Slovenia seceded without much fuss, and the war in Croatia, though fierce,was relatively brief. Bosnia was altogether more of a mess, but we were in no position to impose a peace, and the parties were not ready to negotiate. Clinton himself, incidentally, ignored it for a couple of years, when, arguably, we should have been more forthright in supporting the Muslims. You are quite mistaken, in any case, in saying that Clinton was bequeathed a quagmire that was preventable. He stepped in when the division of the country was practically complete, and there were patrollable lines separating the factions. In the beginning, neighbor beset neighbor, and it would have been impossible to keep anything near peace without heavy American casualties. Third, it is possible that Bush should have acted in some manner, but more likely that Clinton was the one with culpable foot dragging, when it became clear that Serbia was providing substantial support to one side, and Croatia was getting drawn in, and the Muslims were taking help from radicals. Fourth, the business in Africa had nothing to do with the Cold War........