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To: capitalistbeatnik who wrote (41929)	4/11/1999 1:23:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

VISXbull---LOL! I am reminded of the Newsweek cover at the end of "Stripes":"The New Army: Can America Survive?"

To: capitalistbeatnik who wrote (41929)	4/11/1999 2:01:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I wanted to add something. When we make a decision to intervene in a conflict, it is no small matter if we exacerbate the situation through bad planning, or take steps that in the end seem to achieve our goals, or at least a good number of them. Daniel compares a limited but unmistakable success like Desert Storm, where we achieved our immediate goal of thwarting and containing Saddam Hussein, although not our greater ambition to supplant him, with the fiasco that is Kosovo. He compares our success in bringing about negotiations and elections in Central America, to the fiasco that is Kosovo. And because we did not achieve every goal, or because some of the people we supported did bad things, he is content to say that we have no right to criticize the fiasco which is Kosovo. Rather, we have every right, especially because Clinton is, as Paul Gigot makes clear in the column quoted earlier, wasting the legacy of his predecessors through his fecklessness and irresponsibility.