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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (1497)	5/25/2001 4:40:20 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I see that you're taking in this reality and coming to an understanding of the brutal truth about the problems in the Mid-East. Most Arab rulers could care less about Arafat or the Palestinians because they inherent threaten their own rule (as well as they fact that they supported Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War). But if their people feel sympathy for the Palestinians, then often the rulership is dragged along rather than risking their own power. As for Kosovo, that's a mess the Serbs created for themselves. Under Tito, a Croat, Yugoslavia was held together under a common leader who many in the various nationalities could expect a fair deal from. But under Milosevic, Yugoslavia flew apart because he couldn't dispel the belief that he was nothing more than Serbian overseer. So the Slovenes, and then the Croats and Bosnians broke away. Milosevic countered with brutal means to retrieve a former glory of a united Balkans that had rotted away. As for Kosovar "thuggery" there's no doubt about it. But good 'ol Milo was known to have BILLIONS stashed away, all robbed from all the people of Yugoslavia. And he was just as involved in drug smuggling as any Albanian. I had a guy I knew who was working as a UN borker observer back in 1996(?), and when he came back he said forget about Bosnia... Look at Kosovo... This was before any of the violence had actually broken out to an extreme. Hawk