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To: Mike from La. who wrote (41576)	4/4/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Mike, (OT) well the good news is that the events in the Balkans may help spike the price of oil. Yours is a vigorous and honest defense of President Clinton. However I see a different perspective. First President Clinton was not impeached because the 2/3d's of the Senate did not decide that what he did ,rose to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors". No more, no less. Now most would agree that his behavior was loathsome and reprehensible- you'd be fired from your job if you did that to a 21 year-old summer intern- but not impeachable. What the Clinton -Gore Administration has accomplished however is to coarsen and cheapen the American political process- and I'm saying this to you as a former Member of a Democratic Administration. Now as to Serbia/Kosovo - Mike, I see your point and I'm not objecting to our goals- But how can a coalition of 19 countries with a population base of 780mm+ people not crush immediately a low tech military midget in Serbia? President Bush did it just nine years ago in Iraq- what's the problem here? NATO's air attacks have not only not stopped the Serbian offensive, they have also caused and exacerbated a humanitarian catastrophe- for which NATO was not prepared! Why has this happened- because IMO NATO's Policy from Day One is a losing policy- It's President Johnson and the Vietnam War air policy all over again. I never thought I'd see a policy of "limited war" repeated again in my lifetime- and here's President Clinton doing it one more time! As to ground troops- I believe we all can guess why NATO does not introduce ground troops into the Sovereign Country of Yugoslavia. Noone knows with what countries Yugoslavia has mutual /reciprocal defense treaties with if its territories are violated- Bulgaria? Romania? Moldava? Ukraine? Byelorussia? Russia? China? So I'd counsel caution before sending NATO ground forces across the Yugoslavian Border without UN Security Council sanction unlike the Iraqi situation... And yes! Analogy to Rwanda and the Sudan is apt! 1,000,000 people died in Rwanda in 1994- where was President Clinton? Over 2,000,000 people have died and 7,000,000 refugees have been created just to the NE in the Sudan in a grinding civil war that goes on today- and that includes an active slave trade just confirmed by a UN agency report from UNICEF- where's the outrage/intervention? And strategic importance of Kosovo? To whom- the United States?? Prime Minister Churchhill once described Argentina in 1942 as "a dagger... pointed at the heart of Antarctica." Could that same analogy is applicable here? Finally the Clinton Administration has already changed its official reason for intervention less than two weeks after the start of this affair- did you notice that? Do you remember what was the original US reason given for intervention? I wonder whether this foreign policy effort is well thought out... Just one person's opinion... Sincerely, Doug F.