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To: goldworldnet who wrote (651587)10/26/2004 12:47:15 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
"...in hindsight I believe it was the right thing to do,"

Yep... the continued presence of mass-murdering and teritorially aggressive Dictators in the Balkans would have --- arguably --- been even more dangerous for US interests then the same construction in the Middle East....

"but sadly the US got little credit for the endeavor."

I actually thought that we got a fair amount of the 'credit' for resolving the situation --- analogous perhaps to the 'credit' we received for opposing the Soviets in Afghanistan in an earlier decade....