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To: dave who wrote (32021)	4/18/1999 7:17:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 116768

Hi Dave : I agree with you --- a real Catch 22. Whatever one does, or doesn't do, is no good. But, one imagines, that's why we have such, presumably, very clever people to run the show. People who should have been able to plot a course between the Scylla and Charybdis --- and choose the correct strategy. I haven't an answer and I don't pretend that I have. But it's clear that the situation "blew up" in NATO's face. They expected a few missiles etc would cause instant capitulation on Milosevic' part -- unconditional surrender, no less. Instead, it had exactly the opposite result --- all the Serbs now support him in defiance and the cleansing has become a deluge --- aided, of course, by the rain of NATO bombs. I'm not for a moment attempting to minimize the monstrous acts of the Serb "SS". But, there's no doubt that, directly or indirectly, the presence of NATO manifestly aggravated the situation. Now, all NATO can do is seek revenge and a means to punish Milosevic. This they will do by smashing up Serbia (Yugoslavia). They will compound a human catastrophe with a human disaster --- seeking to prove that two wrongs do, in fact, make a right. Meanwhile, the consequences and unexpected consequences of escalation are "too ghastly to contemplate". The Albanian Kosovars will not be resettled in Kosovo for years to come --- if ever. The land will be strewn with mines, booby traps and the pollution of depleted uranium etc. For what was a primarily agricultural community, the environment and food-chain will be very severely damaged. After many years in exile, my expectations are that the refugees will either be dead or resettled elsewhere --- possibly in permanent camps in Albania, similar to the Palestinians who, after 50 years in the "wilderness", are still seeking a proper home. That is my view. Clearly wrongly, I expected more insight, statesmanship and vision from the nations, I have been led to believe, are the most powerful, knowledgable, civilized and democratic nations on earth. IMO, instead of solving what is unquestionably a most difficult problem, they are leading the world into disaster. Searle