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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (1405)	4/4/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Shtirlitz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

<<The only thing he has done is make it clear to a lot of other people's that they must unite in opposition to a superpower which would use force rather arbitrarily in a conflict in which it had so little stake. >> This "superpower" crap is pissing me off. There is no such thing. There is no room for this kind of mentality in the future. "Greater Germany", is an example. Whenever the idea of the "superpower" gets into people's heads, it inevitably leads to war, sooner or later. All "superpowers" of the world have degraded and ceased to exist, only because they thought they are invoulnerable. Rome, Greece, Germany, Soviet Union, etc. Whenever, some character, like Senator McCane, comes on CNN and starts the crap, like "we are the superpower, therefore we have responsibilites and obligations in front of the world community", I turn red in anger. Responsibilities, like what? Poking their dirty noses into affairs of the sovereign country around the world? The rest of the world doesn't want any "superpowers" to impose their opinion on them. And one day they get toghther and beat the shit out of the "superpower". Thats they way it is, and thats how it should be.

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (1405)	4/4/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Clinton has done the fascists in Russia a great favor. Nothing on earth could have given them more credibility amongst the Russian people than our military intervention in a dirty little ethnic war amongst the peoples of a sovereign nation. The only thing he has done is make it clear to a lot of other people's that they must unite in opposition to a superpower which would use force rather arbitrarily in a conflict in which it had so little stake.>> LOL! Perhaps the Russians have done more to discredit themselves than anything Clinton has done. After all, Russia was part of the body that drew up the conditions for Serbia that Milosevich subsequently defied, and which Russia subsequently supported Milosevich in defying. Russia, a permanant member of the UN Security Council, also voted to condemn Serbia for the very atrocities which they now say isnt happening there. Russian hypocrisy and childish attempts to gain politically from a humanitarian catastrophe, not to mention their impotent military posturing, has done more to descredit that nation than anything we have done to ourselves.