To: Fred Levine who wrote (45366 ) 12/24/2003 2:17:14 PM From: IQBAL LATIF Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167 <When I read that leftists and liberal always try to appease, I think of Harry Truman in Korea and Japan, of Kennedy in Cuba and Berlin, and Clinton in the Balkans--> And why not Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq for a just cause, if 'Clark' meeting with the bunch of Serb thugs and war criminals is diplomatic effort, I call it nothing but a betrayal of the 'blood of innocents' and that is exactly how appeasement is defined. Name calling is derogatory, but the way Bush is treated on this thread by some of these loonies is absurd and I would appreciate if you can have some concern on that too, all these hard core loonies gathering on my thread only present to me an opportunity to see that how blind folded they are in hatred of present administration and how shallow they, most of them have been wrong all along since I know them, some said Iraq would be a Vietnam, than claimed the war will cost thousands of casualties and the litany of claims have never stopped, the world has moved forward and their ideas have been deposed to thrash of history. Bush has helped change the dynamics of global politics a lot, Kennedy in Bays of pig was a disaster but lets not talk about it, in Cuba he gave up on Turkish Missiles in a secret deal, so appeasement was part of Cuban crisis nothing bad in that but the issue here is that Clark was meeting people who had genocidal crimes on hand, in Srebrenica 7500 man and children were eliminated and both of the Serbs were declared war criminals and Boston Globe has written a great story which I have just reproduced, I would advise you to target your real post to the author the link is highlighted in my post. Best regards Ike