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To: D. Long who wrote (559)3/25/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: robnhood  Respond to of 765
 
D,,, I think it is the same here... It's just not up to full speed yet..

Started to get there in the Viet Nam BS----

PS: IMHO, The Germans fought with heart, the yanks in Nam did not----



To: D. Long who wrote (559)3/26/1999 5:36:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 765
 
[...] quite a few Germans did think they were the bad guys. Ive had the distinct honor to know quite a few elderly Germans here in the States, and I lived in Germany for a few years. There were many, I wont say whether it was a minority or a majority because I dont know, who knew from the start that the Nazis were despicable and the war unjust. Most were simply too terrified to do anything, as if they could do anything.

This is also true with the Kosovo crisis: there are Serbs who think that Milosevic is a psycho and that Serbia should restore a larger autonomy for Kosovo which is/was populated by 1,800,000 ethnic Albanians! We're not talking about a few renegade villages that look to terrorize an overwhelmingly Serbian Kosovo! It's rather the other way around.

Anyway, I can tell you that several opinion polls (in Belgium, France,...) indicate that a majority of Europeans are against the continuation of what is perceived as a Yankee bombing of Serbia. I'm not talking of 80-90% --it's about 45-55% of interviewees who oppose operation Allied Force. Next, political leaders, from both left and right obedience, start complaining about a lack of parliamentary debate on the NATO initiative... They say that, in the U.S., President Clinton discussed the issue with Senators and addressed the American public in a TV-broadcasted speech. Whereas in France and Belgium for instance, the government ''advised'' the Parliament after NATO's air strikes were launched.

So, my guess is that this whole Allied Force operation will have to be turned off by Monday March 29. After all, why do you think that both Russia and China have so loudly condemned the NATO initiative? Because they anticipate that, sooner or later, the U.S. and their faithful, unconditional ally, that is the U.K. will be left alone in the dark... Pressured by their respective public opinions, European chancelleries will push for a ''ceasefire'' with Serbia.

Maybe U.N. troops including a majority of Russian soldiers will be sent to Kosovo? This is a plausible compromise: on the one hand, Milosevic agrees on foreign troops settling in Serbia's holy Kosovo and, on the other hand, ethnic Albanians are granted with a political settlement that will provide them with a genuine cultural, administrative and economical autonomy.

My 2 cents,
Gustave.