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

To: Neocon who wrote (41760)	4/7/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Well, I actually think that virtually anyone could beat Gore even without Bubba hanging over his head, but I mostly agree with you. The concern that I have is that Clinton has seriously lowered the standards by which presidents will be judged. I tend to doubt that we will let another president get away with as much as Clinton has, but I think we will let them get away with much more than we would have let any pre-Clinton president get away with. I think that the people (those that didn't already have it) are developing a strong distaste for our white trash president, and I continue to believe that in years to come those who voted for him and supported him will be ashamed to admit it. But the damage has been done. The only thing that I disagree with is your statement that "there are times when the symptoms are severest just before the fever breaks, and the mending begins." Not that that's not true; it certainly is. The problem is that I don't see any real "mending" on the horizon. Our downward slide should slow a bit with the Clintons out of office, but it's not going to stop. At the risk of sounding extremist, I repeat and emphasize: It is not going to stop. Personally, I'm for gettin' out while the gettin's good. I just haven't figured out where to get to.... -BLT

To: Neocon who wrote (41760)	4/7/1999 5:41:00 AM
From: JBL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

NATO Campaign 'Not Going to Plan' BBC 4/6/99 David Shukman Publicly, the attitude at NATO remains upbeat. As air strikes continue in the Kosovo campaign, the BBC's David Shukman gains an exclusive insight into attitudes behind the scenes at NATO's military headquarters in Brussels: Hundreds of miles from the battle front amid the long corridors of NATO's military headquarters, General Wesley Clarke is in charge of a campaign which is not exactly going to plan. This operation may have the best technology, but there is a feeling at NATO HQ - conveyed only privately - that it is not NATO which is making the running, but Mr Milosevic. In public of course, the line remains upbeat. "We never thought we could fight a ground war from the air," said Allied Supreme Commander Wesley Clarke. "But we do know that we're making them pay a heck of a price for the terrible things that are going on, and we intend to continue and intensify that. "I think very clearly from the air side we have the initiative". But nothing is quite that simple, as the RAF Harrier pilots are finding out. Armed with cluster bombs, they have been sent to attack the Serbs tanks in Kosovo - the central part of the NATO campaign. The weather is clear for bombing now, but the Serbs have suddenly become elusive. They have spread their forces out over Kosovo, and are hiding them in and amongst buildings and also under camouflage, where the tanks are kept static. In this way they save the fuel which NATO is trying to deny them by bombing supplies. They maintain radio silence so they are harder to track, and not using their engines means there is no heat signal for NATO's infra-red cameras to track. At the NATO news briefing, Air Commodore David Wilby admitted that he faced frustrating problems. "Despite the good weather, we did have problems actually seeing the targets and being able to get them on the ground," he said. "It is a very cunning enemy out there", he said. It was in the heart of NATO's military headquarters that the original war plan was drawn up, but it is clear that has now been overtaken by events on the ground. NATO is suddenly having to operate on two fronts - the military and the humanitarian. It is having to come up with a new plan, but that is far from easy. As one senior official put it, there is a vacuum of thinking about the next stage in this crisis. For educational and discussion purposes only.