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To: D. Long who wrote (3522)	4/13/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17770

D. Long, Ya know, sometimes just sitting on the hands and looking the other way is the best policy. In the Sci Fi reality of "Star Trek", they had this law that the members of the "Federation of Planets" used to have to abide by. It was called the "Prime Directive" and meant that you were not supposed to interfere with cultures more primative than your own. This was the path we chose with the Hutu-Tutsi civil war that raged (and is still going) throughout Ruwanda, Uganda, and Brundi. Over one million people were shot, hacked to death, or killed in some other fasion. Clinton considered some kind of intervention and then decided not to do anything about it. That was the best policy. They were all guilty, just as in the Yugoslavian civil war, there were no innocent parties. Some of the worst att- rocities that have occured in the Balkans were between the Moslims and Croatians. They took torture and rape to an art form. From what I understand, the hatred is now growing again between these two groups and the fighting could break out again at any moment. I wonder what NATO and Clinton would do then? Bomb Muslims, Croats, or both? -John