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To: Sam who wrote (41554)	4/3/1999 3:23:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 95453

Sam, Kosovar is something close to 95% Albanian people. They agreed in the peace talks in France to some autonomy. Milosovic should have agreed to that. Some like you have tried to drum up comparisons and what-ifs. I've heard the situation in Kosovo compared to our US Civil War. The reason that's not valid for one is: The North didn't try to drive out and exterminate the Southern citizen population. The Union Armies met the Rebs on the battlefield. But Milosovic is a coward, and does not want to meet the KLA in battle. He would rather direct his paramilitary police to burn the houses of Albanian Kosovars. The Northern Armies in the American Civil War didn't do this, other than Sherman's March. And even there the objective wasn't to displace and make homeless the civilian population. Three of my great uncles fought in the American Civil War (Union), and our family has the diary of one of those Uncles. He writes while his unit is on the move deep in the South. He writes of visiting plantations his unit was passing by, to buy beef to feed the soldiers. They were polite, and they paid cash for the food stores they bought. They did not burn the plantation, rape the women, and kill or send any young men to who-knows-where, probably to be shot and buried in mass graves. Milosovic does this, as has been documented extensively in Croatia, Bosnia, etc. Milosovic is an evil coward, and I applaud every cruise missile that strikes his buildings, equipment, military command centers, police command centers, etc. His troops and tanks also must come under attack. IMO, every govt building in Belgrade should have an American Tomahawk go through its roof. Note that I'm not a Democrat, quite the opposite. Don't mess with the Yanks. Sometimes that's a hard lesson for cowardly despots like Milisovic to learn, but he will learn it, just as Hitler learned it.

To: Sam who wrote (41554)	4/3/1999 3:48:00 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

I personally think we should keep these world events on this thread cynically measured in terms of the effect on the price of crude oil,and leave Clinton bashing or defending the Clinton threads,and the views regards one's own personal feelings on Kosovo to the Kosovo thread. I have found people on these threads that like and respect each other until they found out they have different political viewpoints-- one of the greatest true stories I ever heard is the story of Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart. The lifelong friendship between Hank and Jimmy was legendary,it was one of the greatest friendship's in Hollywood history--so how is it that the staunchly conservative Republican(Jimmy Stewart) and the staunchly liberal Democrat(Henry Fonda) accomplish this? Here is the true story. Hank and Jimmy started together as actors in New York city,they lived together and "starved" together,and they both had a strong sense of true friendship,but they started to get into political arguments and one day it erupted into a brawl,their emotions got so hot. After they got exhausted wrestling and punching, Jimmy said to Hank in that Jimmy manner "You know Hank your my friend,my best friend,but Hank let's take an oath NEVER to talk politics with each other again" and Hank agreed and they shook hands on it. And in the 40 ensuing years of that great frienship,they,it is believed never broke that vow. I found,somehow.a geat meaning in that story. Max90