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To: The Philosopher who wrote (2737)	4/8/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 17770

This is the last time I explain this. Greece will be involved in armed conflict with Macedonia and/or Albania within the next two years, if an abrupt halt isn't called to the spreading conflict in the Balkans. The Balkans as a whole are a collection of thousands of miles of disputed borders and disputed territorial sovereignty. Every entity in the Balkans, Greece included, is trying to use the window of opportunity created by the power vacuum left in the wake of the destruction of the Warsaw Pact and the disassembly of Yugoslavia. Greece is only waiting for the conflicts to reach it's borders before "responding to Albanian and Macedonian agression". (Hell Greece was willing to go to war with Macedonia because of it's name. Greece claims proprietary control of the name "Macedonia") Greece is fully aware that Turkey would come to the aid of Muslims in Macedonia and Albania at the drop of a hat, but their hate for the Turks has created a blind spot in their collective national sight and also causes them to forget that Turkey has ripped them a new asshole every time they've traded punches since Greece obtained independence from the Ottoman Empire. A shooting war between Greece and Turkey would make every thing that has happened in the Balkans to date look like schoolyard fistfight. The irony of the ongoing conflict in the Balkans is that none of the combatants desperately need the lands that they are fighting for. The mutual hate that each ethnic and nationalistic group feels for one another has become ingrained in their collective national identities and defines them. I say we've put up with their silly shit for long enough. Since they won't put an end to it, we (NATO) should. As far as your continous cutesy references of Viet Nam as a civil war, that's a term that would only be used by someone who wasn't there and didn't face the onslaught of a hostile invading army.