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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (4942)	4/3/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Thanks so much for sharing, Josef. I agree that there is nothing we can do to change what is happening. We constantly try to peer down the road into the future ahead of what is happening, here on the HOME thread. That is why I asked the questions I asked. they all require a certain predicting of possible events. . .a sort of handicapping. I likewise agree that the Croats, etc. would rise against the Serbs if given half a chance. . .history has shown this. And in light of the past few decades, it's a gimme. I'll pick up that book from the library on Monday. . .thanks. Since I am not the one in the war, I needn't have a sense of humor about it. And much as I watch those that are in war, I never see the smiles. So I don't understand your statement where you are 'astounded." I watched MASH and some war movies, so I know that soldiers can use humor as a psychological bandage. But as a patriotic American citizen, I don't see where I need it. I laugh every single day. But never at war. I also disagree that our discussions are fruitless. Thousands of people read this thread. Our voices and votes are what drive this country. Now and then we call for everyone to write their representatives and express their thoughts. To believe that our voice is mute, is to quit democracy. What disappoints me most though, is that the U.S. citizens have been so caught up in their own entertainment, that we have not seen the need to research the Balkan history. And if we had done so years ago, we would have clearly seen that there was no sense in deploying our military. Having seen where the world wars started and the 600+ year history of holy wars there, aware Americans would have marched on Washington, than to allow a single service man to be sent there. . .but we have no awareness, and we no longer have much desire. Russian military leaders have said that they believe they could take over America any time they wished. They see America as divided and their citizens as weak. Now that their country no longer has an economy. . .and they can no longer pay their citizens for the work they do. . .a war just might be just the ticket for them to get their economy back on track. It doesn't bother me so much that we DIDN'T REALIZE what was happening. . .and that fighting in Serbia will always net a stalemate. It is that we STILL DON'T CARE. The complacency of average American citizens is what makes us 'weak'. It is as though we are waiting for Tom Brokaw to break into 'Frazier' and say the words "We interupt this program to bring you this special report. . . .America is headed to another World War. The only hope we have to avoid it is if every U.S. Citizen with half a brain converges on Washington." . . .<smirk> I cannot name a single outspoken American right now that has the courage of his convictions. . .that is speaking out and saying "wake up, everyone . . .if Russia joins this war, history shows that every major power in the world will immediately choose sides." We are ONE news report from the start of a world war. Russian leaders are embarassed by this war. Russian people are afraid of NATO invading Russia and bombing them in their sleep. Serbia has asked Russia for military assistance on April 1. And on April 2, Russia calls for emergency meeting of CIS parliament and ousts one of their leaders, claiming he committed some crime against the state. [We don't even get this news here on CNN, etc. We must dig it out of the BBC, etc. and post it on the web.] Russia will NOT get involved by themselves. But as I keep saying over and over, watch for signs of Russia joining with Belarus and the Ukraine, as has been rumored for a while . . .to become a world super-power. This would greatly please the Pan-Slavics. And should they announce a newly unified Communist Union, they would have the momentum, the spirit, the will and the need. And deploying their military might would all be part of the fun. This is what I meant when I said, "Our hearts are with the refugees, but our eyes are trained on Russia." Rande Is