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To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (558659)	4/1/2004 11:24:26 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Er, MktBuzz: Your example of Kosovo sort of works (though one might wonder if our commitment and resolve would have lasted so long under different war time circumstances....) But, the examples of East Timor and Sierra Leone don't really work as you laid them out. In East Timor, we didn't have a direct military presence, no participation in any fighting, and it was an international-run operation (albeit with good long-term goals that we as a nation should support, because they are in our own national interests: the rights of a people to have self-government, democracy, peace and freedom). In Sierra Leone, I find it had to draw much of a clear example at all.

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (558659)	4/1/2004 4:50:04 PM
From: broadstbull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<< But since you don't look at facts, but rather emotional outbursts and lies by the left, I believe this little exercise is lost on you. >>> Uhm, Afghanistan? Karzai is the Mayor of Kabul, thats it. Outside of Kubul, warlords rule. You know why? Because we were so quick to run to Iraq, we don't have the troop strength the follow up on our promises. I know all about East Timor, that was not a US military operation Kosovo, I see the Balkans are starting to erupt again, the jury is still out. I hope you're right about Kosovo. Panama, all we did there was dispose of a dictator that worked for us. He stopped playing ball, so he got whacked. Oh, I almost forgot, we also tested out our smart weapons in the slums of Panama. It amazes me how folks like you see such a rosey picture of US militarism. Somehow the rest of the world never sees it that way.