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To: Jacalyn Deaner who wrote (2192)	4/6/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Jackal D, There's no doubt that I have forgotten, or for that fact participated in, more history than you've ever learned. More than 250,000 NATO troops, mostly US, have been involved in the interventions and peacekeeping missions in Croatia and Bosnia over the last seven years. Have you conveniently forgotten about that? The fact that we were not able to stop atrocities committed by ALL sides, but predominantly the Serbs, in Croatia and Bosnia doesn't mean we condoned them. And it has been the Serbs, and no one else that have continued a methodical, ruthless program of ethnic cleansing, while the international community has worked tirelessly, if ineffectively, to bring a stop to the bloodshed through diplomatic means. Milosevic "knew" that he could continue his program of a modern "Serbia for Serbians Only" because there was no one willing to step in and stop him. Even after NATO finally threatened military intervention he continued to act with impunity because he still believed NATO wouldn't do anything and also because of Boris Yeltsin's guarantee in December of last year, that "Russia will absolutely not permit NATO to intervene militarily in Kosovo". Pro-Serb, Anti-NATO rhetoric to the contrary, the ongoing war in Yugoslavia poses a very real threat to several NATO member countries. That places a NATO intervention, well within the mandate of the NATO charter. If NATO is to be judged guilty in the court of history it will be for waiting so long to take military action, not for finally doing so. I read your quote of Papaya King's posting. He must be tickled to be cited as a source of information, but I didn't find much there beside jingoistic slogans and simplistic platitudes used out of context to try and prove a point. P.S. I share your disdain for most modern public education in the U.S. What did you major in, self-esteem enhancement or ecological burger retailing?