To: sea_biscuit who wrote (589954 ) 7/12/2004 3:53:39 PM From: Neocon Read Replies (2) | Respond to I supported the action. I was critical of some of the handling of it. My position, in fact, was that the Administration should have acted sooner in both Bosnia and Kosovo.Message 9187129 ...By the way, one of the reasons that I dislike the antis on the thread is the ease with which they assume that persons in positions of responsibility are moral cretins. Some may be, and I have no love for Clinton, but most people in responsibility have a sense of the consequences of their actions, and feel the weight of choice heavily. Few people send young men into battle lightly. I supported the Gulf War, and I felt the seriousness of that support, and felt terrible for the fodder that Hussein sent to the front, as well as for our own. How much more so someone who must give the order to go? It may come easily to the others to believe that all of those in positions of responsibility in NATO are complicit in a cynical exercise designed for "muscle flexing", but it does not come easily to me.... Message 9203565 1. The United Nations had the opportunity to condemn the action, but did not take it. Therefore, it has implicitly sanctioned the action.
