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To: aladin who wrote (69143)	1/27/2003 3:01:36 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Now many of the same folks who argued for intervention in Bosnia or Kosovo, sound like the Republican Policy committee in 1999. What has changed? The administration. Its all partisan. Oh, I don't doubt that counts for some portion of the difference. But there is at least one more significant difference. The Clinton folk, to my knowledge, never argued that Kosovo could be construed, at least narrowly, as a "strategic interest." Perhaps Tek knows better than I on that one. The support for that came from the articulated reason of stopping "ethnic cleansing." And the lack of opposition, to some extent, came from Clinton's early declaration that he would not order troops on the ground. Of course, that latter declaration, limited the options of the US, as has often been said. Different rationales produce different allies in the home base.