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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBL who wrote (41588)	4/4/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

It's All Over But for Clinton Declaring Moral Victory stratfor.com

To: JBL who wrote (41588)	4/4/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

REPORT: MILITARY AND WHITE HOUSE SPLIT; U.S. CHIEFS ARGUED THAT KOSOVO ACTION WAS NOT IN AMERICA'S INTEREST In the weeks before NATO launched its air campaign against Yugoslavia, U.S. military chiefs expressed deep reservations about the Clinton administration's approach to Kosovo, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to report late Sunday night. According to publishing sources, the paper is building a "big one" based on conversations with military officers close to the Joint Chiefs. "The senior most generals, meeting in closed-door sessions in the Pentagon's secure tank room, argued that the administration should use more economic sanctions and other non-military levers to compel Belgrade," the POST's Bradley Graham is reporting. "They complained about what they saw as the lack of a longterm vision for the Balkans and questioned whether U.S. national interests there were strong enough to merit a military confrontation." One senior officer "knowledgeable about the deliberations" tells the POST: "I think it's safe to say that I don't think anybody felt like there had been a compelling argument made that all of this was in our national interest." And the paper reports that the chiefs have not given "serious consideration" to sending in ground troops, at least not U.S. troops. Explained one senior officer: "There was no political consensus for it either here in the United States or in NATO... if what's happening in Kosovo is more in the vital national interest of the Europeans, shouldn't they be the ones clamoring to put together a ground plan to go in." Developing late Sunday night...