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To: michael97123 who wrote (101964)	6/18/2003 3:38:31 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

LOL! Yes, that is a good one... The neocon position in Kosovo was, actually, that an impending genocide could not be tolerated, and that we had stood aside too long in Bosnia. (My criticism in that case was that Clinton waited to long, and essentially got involved in policing the ethnically cleansed borders). The "realist" position, which was also used to bolster the neocon argument, was that Europe could not tolerate massive refugee flows, and that NATO credibility depended on cleaning up the messes in its backyard. In other words, the neocon "difference" is a greater willingness to intervene on humanitarian grounds, although tempered by realism, and feeling the need to get realists on board to have a broader base of support. That is why it is laughable to me that the neocon influence is portrayed as nefarious. We may be dumbasses, but our hearts are in the right place............