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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (300)	3/26/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Dave Reed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I don't have an answer; I really wish I did. These events are tragic. Not having an answer is no excuse for taking a counter productive action, however. Can you offer some reasons why you think that bombing will help? I'm sure that people who support this must have some reason for doing so other than just a desire to take some kind of action in the face of terrible circumstances. (I'm not trying to be sarcastic with that remark, please don't read it that way.)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (300)	3/26/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 17770

Dave, If you want the solution that Bill Clinton chose to end the Bosnian civil war, he ended up shipping 200 million dollars in weapons (in violation of a UN and Congressional arms embargo) to the Muslum government in Bosnia. This gave them the power along with a temporary alliance with the Croats to over run the Bosnian Serb rebel arm. Net result was that it ended the civil war but created about 1/4 million Serb refugees and a taste for payback. That is what you are seeing now. Payback for the losses the Serbs sustained back then. Personally, I think we should just let them slug it out. Eventually, the war will end. The worst thing we can do is arm factions. We will become combatants just like we did in Viet Nam... -John