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To: Stormweaver who wrote (253)	3/26/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Please refer me to any factual information demonstrating genocide. I'm not sure I would go there if I were you. Much as I oppose the bombing, I do believe that the Serbians have committed atrocities and acts which would legitimately be classified as at least borderline genocide. Honest reports are hard to come by, but if the current reports of 20 school teachers shot in front of their students turn out to be true, it is hard to find an excuse for such conduct. I think the better argument is to recognize that Yugoslavia has done some very bad things, and has committed identifiable atrocities. This is normal with ANY civil war (including, as I pointed out in an earlier post, our own civil war). But none of that justifies our using military might against a country which is not threatening and has not threatened its neighbors to try to force them to accept our opinion of the way they should resolve what is a problem internal to a soverign nation fighting an armed insurrection. The world is sometimes not a nice place. But one doesn't make it nicer by dropping bombs and missiles indiscriminantly. Might does not always make right, and the country that has the most military might does not always have the best moral compass.