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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1492)	5/19/2003 9:36:53 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Thanks for your comments Dale, I'll take your word for it. :).. Because logic tells me we had no strategic interest there, resources, location etc, well maybe a little location as it is at a crossroads. And we took the "wrong" side, (tongue in cheek, he says) Moving on, the problem with our "liberations" is just that. Like has been mentioned they are not mostly true liberations. And if they were, the people themselves are not starting with a clean slate. Too many residuals.. Not like us, when we started here, 225 years ago. We set this up as democracy for white settlers only with nothing similar in mind for those pesky natives whom we would liberate from their lands if they got in the way. And they seemed to be continually in the way as the "young men" eagerly took the advice of old Horace.. c

To: Dale Baker who wrote (1492)	5/21/2003 2:47:37 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Dale, Re: Just a comment from someone with a lot of Balkan experience I have lately been reading some unsettling commentary that the Clinton intervention into the internal affairs of Bosnia and Kosovo were not so much motivated by the publicly announced humanitarian aims that were a "cover", but rather by the usual U.S. foreign policy realpolitik calculation of spheres of influence. That is to say, Milosevic was becoming too powerful a regional force, aligned as he was with his Slav brothers in Russia and the FSU and the practical pols in our State Department, DoD and intel community decided that a bout of "divide and conquer" was in order. Much like has been touted in PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" or the "National Security Strategy of the United States", the hardliners in the Clinton foreign apparatus made a preventive/preemptive strike against Milosevic's growing regional power, eliminating a possible threat to American hegemony in Southeastern Europe. Comments welcomed. -Ray