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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (4782)	4/21/1999 4:49:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Emile, I appreciated your article re: Ms. Albright's skeleton in the cupboard. I'm afraid that we are still too close to WWII to have access to all historical information sources... I recommend you to read ''Plausible Denial'' by Mark Lane: the author is a lawyer who's been involved in the investigation on JFK's conspiratorial assassination. You'll learn that former President G. Bush might have been working for the CIA as early as 1960... Now, regarding the Rambouillet ultimatum, I think it's always very difficult for (a coalition of) democratic regimes to deal with a jingoist government. Kosovo doesn't have oil, gold, or any other valuable natural resource. It's not even a touristic/vacational resort. The only asset of Kosovo is its Orthodox legacy (churches, monasteries,...) and its people: over 1.8 million ethnic Albanians. And I think that people must prevail over any form of fetichism! Milosevic is a brutal dictator who uses Serbian nationalism as an instrument to deny other ethnic minorities an equal right to pursue happiness (to speak by the US Constitution lingo). Ethnic Albanians don't want to recycle Orthodox churches in mosques or monasteries in brothels; all they're looking for is to care themselves about their own, daily business without Belgrade's stick over their heads. Therefore, the challenge for the Balkans is to decouple citizenship from ethnicity: Albanians are no longer to be second-class citizens in an imperial Yugoslavia. That's why the U.S. are so useful in solving the Balkan issue: I'm waiting for the U.S. to teach the Balkan --and the European-- people to live together according to U.S. standards. Think about it: two out of the three U.S. soldiers who've been captured by the Serbs bear non-Anglo-Saxon names: Ramirez and Gonzalez... That's why I find it insulting to see swastikas tagged on the US flag and I expect to see many more Ramirez, Gonzalez, and Sanchez coming over to Albania to give us a refreshing flavor of America! Gustave.