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To: JBL who wrote (40662)	3/30/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I don't buy into the assertion that a ground war is inevitable. If NATO decides that it is essential to destroy Serbia's capacity to make war, and by doing so it's ability to commit genocide and perpetrate ethnic cleansing, then it has some options. Increase the intensity of the air campaign to a level that even Serb leadership finds unacceptable is one option. If NATO finds the projected casualty levels for our ground force unacceptable, and declaring a cease fire is unacceptable, then we have to remind Milosevic that we are still the same simple souls that were willing to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rather than accept U.S. casualties in the hundreds of thousands. I'm not suggesting for a moment that we even consider using nuclear weapons, that's unthinkable as well as unnecessary. What I'm saying is that we have the ability to increase the intensity of our air campaign ten-fold, but that would entail hitting targets throughout the entire gamut of Serbia's infrastructure, not just the military and government. Such a pressure could be brought to bear that the military could be coerced into sitting down and talking peace treaty, but it would be at the cost of being almost as ruthless as the Serbs themselves. NATO has to ask itself, if it is prepared to go the whole nine yards. I also take issue to Jonathon Eyal's comparison of NATO actions in Serbia to the U.N.'s debacle in Somalia. I took part in that U.N. orchestrated "Meals on Wheels" abomination and it had nothing in common with a legitimate military operation, thus Eyal's comparison is invalid.