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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (42003)	4/11/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

K.Lingerfelt, News is always censored during wartime-that's routine. Yes CNN et al., give you just a little glance of what's going on around the world. The Sudan is just one example. Everyone is fairly decrying the thousand of casualties in Kosovo- yet have you heard anything at all in the last few years on CNN or any televison station about the genocide and savage civil war in the Sudan- or that slave trading still occurs- yes in 1999 in the Sudan? Over 2,000,000 Africans dead and 7,000,000 refugees displaced. Also last summer in the Sudan over 100,000 Africans mainly women and children starved to death in the Bahr-El-Ghazal Region because the NIF Govenment denied aid agencies who had the supplies ready, access to feed the people (They didn't want any more African rebels created). Outrage against the Sudanese Government? Bombers flying? Tell me where it is.... Here we need to walk very carefully..And I mean very,very carefully.. Yeltsin drew a line in the sand last friday. And the line is at the border of Yugoslavia-including Kosovo. To me the threat is very clear-Russian intervention if one NATO ground Troop enters Kosovo (except as a POW of course). You see Yeltsin politically is where Clinton was about three months ago. The Duma or Lower House in Russia has drawn up Articles of Impeachment against Yeltsin and will begin discussing those Articles on April 15th. Now tell me- is this anytime for Yeltsin to look weak or vacillating? Especially when NATO- in Russia's eyes- is acting suspiciouly similar to the Fascist Germans in WWII in the Balkans before Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941? No it's not-so we all better take his threat very seriously. Everyone thinks that Russia is doddering militarily-they are not. For example, Russia has very high quality surface-to-surface antiship cruise missiles. In fact we have no good defense against them. Trust me- Russia has excellent spy satellites too- they know where our Fleet is in the Adriatic- and the Adriatic is basically like sailing in a bathtub. And if Russia intervenes Belarus will follow- It's pretty clear to me that Yugoslavia, Belarus, and Russia have a mutual defense treaty now after watching last week's developments. And Romania and Bulgaria will become pro-Russian neutrals and allow troops and supplies to move over their territories. If that occurs watch Italy and Greece immediately drop out of the NATO alliance's military actions. That then leaves NATO- no matter how good their weapons are in an untenable position logistically in the Balkans.... I'm not saying that NATO's aims are not noble- end a 600-year old civil war. But for any of you who have visited Alaska, a great big Grizzly Bear Sow has just popped out of the woods and is standing on the trail we are on. It's standing up on its hind legs sniffing the air and looking in our direction, trying to figure out who we are and what we are up to...Now is this the time or place to be screwing with one of the Sow's cubs? I think that we owe it to ourselves to ask that question as a Nation before we whack that cub with a stick. Heck this is a 600 year old civil war- it's not going anywhere if we take the time to talk things over for a couple of days.....Then decide on a course of action, agree, and do it....