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To: Alan Hume who wrote (8800)3/5/2002 7:22:25 AM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36161
 
Air power or missles based in Granada could controll southern approaches to the canal,Cuba could threaten northern approaches.Cuba was the sponsor of the golpists in Granada.Look at the map of the carribean.Shallow waters and reefs limit the number of safe passages from the atlantic.
CYNICLY speaking where would the public relations advantage be if there was no massacres to save muslims from.It also served to show europe that they are still dependent on americas military power even in their own back yard.
A large part of the problem was also the fact that european countries had (have) conflicting historical ties to variuos parts of the former yugoslavia.The US on the other hand could claim to be a relatively honest broker.