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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (1206)	4/2/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Its in our long term economic and political interest to win this conflict Do you want to put a price limit on that, or is there to be no limit? What if it requires 5,000 American deaths and requires the US to keep troops in Kosovo and Serbia indefinitely, as we do in South Korea, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the foreseeable future. Is that price worth it? Of course, there would also be 50,000 to 100,000 Serbian deaths, but who cares about them, anyhow. They're just pawns, not people, and if they want to live they can just overthrow Milosovic and give away Kosovo and let NATO take over their country and run it, which of course any self-respecting person would instantly agree is right and just and fair and we Americans would do in an instant if our roles were reversed. I think any person who uses the term "collateral damage" to describe the deaths of innocent people should be put on a plane and dumped down in the middle of Kosovo naked and weaponless and left to see how they like being collateral damage. Or better yet, they stay here and their wives and children and parents and grandparents and grandchildren are dumped over there, and then they can go ahead and see whether they want to order indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas and targets. I am appalled how at any time, but especially in this Easter season, we can be so willing to kill any number of innocent people in order that Clinton can beat his chest and prove that he is the biggest bastard in the jungle. How about we trade the three soldiers for Hillary and Chelsea. Then see what Clinton wants to do.

To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (1206)	4/2/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>>"Its in our long term economic and political interest to win this conflict now that we have started this."<< Paul, how can NATO "win" this war if winning means occupying Serbia and Kosovo for the next 50 years? That is not my idea of winning. A real win would be to kill all the Serbs and give the country to the Kosovars or kill all the Kosovars and give the country to the Serbs. Then NATO would tell Albania and Macedonia that if they put one foot in Kosovo or Serbia we would kill all of them too. This may sound too simplistic but war is simplistic. You either WIN or LOSE. Anything else is irrelevent. Jim

To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (1206)	4/2/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>Its in our long term economic and political interest to win this conflict now that we have started this. The excerpts were from today's WSJ editorial(which needless to say, I did not pen) Instead of believing every editorial that appear in WSJ or anywhere else and accepting it as the truth, why don't you think & tell us why winning this conflict is in our long term economic and political interest? And what casualty rate would you be willing to accept to achieve this? Paul, it ain't worth it. Let's just help the refugees now by giving them money and maybe moving some here....we made a bad situation even worse...and this is deteriorating hour by hour.