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To: longsink who wrote (123)	3/25/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 17770

"We" have no right to dispose of European membership, but Kosovo is Europe's problem, and Europe has the capacity and self-interest to deal with it, through EU and NATO (and the U.S., because of history -- two great wars -- is a European power). As citizens of the the world, you and I have the right and perhaps the obligation to discuss and propose solutions to problems of the world. The US (with Pan-American consultation) is right, I think, to deal forcefully with problems like Haiti because it is in neighborhood, and we would not permit any other country to intervene. Africa is a kind of no-man's land. Only the French repeatedly intervene militarily. The Eritrea-Ethiopian war, the Ruanda problems, and everything else is far too unstable and too unimportant and far-off for Europe to intervene. No one expects to be able to enforce a peace, and no one wants to try. Another problem for another day, no doubt. But I doubt if I would support intervention there until there was a possible solution, which I see in the Balkans. After all, Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary are part of NATO now. Did you ever think we'd be allied with Hungary?