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To: D. Long who wrote (2535)	4/7/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Two, it seems everyone has forgotten the explicit demands of NATO at the French accords: stop the violence, sign the darn paper, whoever doesnt, gets bombed. The Serbs didnt, the Serbs got bombed. Sorry, you left out the clinker. The Serbs agreed to stop the violence, agreed to a cease fire. What they would NOT agree to was allowing Western troops (most of them from the U.S.) to occupy their country for an undefined period. Does that surprise you? Keep in mind that these US troops come from the country which had helped arm the KLA, which had recently admitted using the UN mission in Iraq as a base for CIA spying, and which could be fully expected to use their presence on the ground to spy on Yugoslav defenses in preparation for bombing or invasion in the future, or even to foment revolution against the government. Albright knew Milosovic could never agree to that, which is why she insisted on it -- it gave her a guaranteed pretext to bomb. We refused to discuss the possibility of neutral troops -- U.N. troops from some country we both sides could consider fair and objective, and which Serbia could have some assurance would not allow US dominance and use as a CIA mission. Albright refused to consider. Think a moment. Would you expect that Britain and Ireland would have agreed to a peace deal if Yeltsin had insisted that Warsaw Pact troops occupy Britain and Ireland to "enforce" the peace? Not on your tintype. Why do we think the equivalent was reasonable in Serbia? Fact is, we intentionally set up conditions we knew would not be agreed to. The negotiations were an intentional hoax, intentionally designed to give Clinton and Albright a chance finally to use their toys before they are out of office. (See Colin Powell's book on Albright and military weaponry. SCARY.)