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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (33985)	4/7/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Lather, I am not quite sure what you mean by your question. Perhaps I have misunderstood it, but here goes. In one respect the dispatch of Stealth Bombers to Chechnya would be very similar to a raid by Bears and Sukhois in support of a bid by secessionists in Idaho. That is: both Chechnya and Idaho are remote -- but in a political, not a geographical, sense. True, Idaho borders on Canada, and Chechnya borders on Georgia (the country, not the state), but I presume that the goal of the Idaho secessionists would not be union with Canada, any more than the goal of the Chechens would be union with Georgia... Besides, who would have sent Stealth bombers to Chechnya, anyway? The Russians were already bombing the hell out of it! The Stealths would have had to fly to Moscow... And finally: geographically, Chechnya is a heck of a lot closer to NATO bases than Idaho is to Russian bases...Take another look at the map. Besides, what have bombers to do with it all? The real question is: do we stand up for ALL of the victims (Kurds, Tutsis, Chechens, southern Sudanese, etc., etc.) or for just some of them? Answer: Some of them. Next question: What are our selection criteria? jbe