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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (4924)	4/21/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 17770

I like this one from Pat Buchanan .... "The purpose of U.S. armed forces is to fight and win America's wars, not meddle in foreign quarrels that have nothing to do with America's vital interests. The lives of U.S. Soldiers will be put at risk only when America's vital interests are at stake. We will rebuild America's military might and pay our soldiers a livable wage. I will stop the Clinton practice of treating the armed forces as social laboratories for experiments by aging '60's radicals."

To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (4924)	4/21/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

That figure for 1/2% of Kosovars actually joining the KLA sort of refutes the Serbs claim of a massive Muslim uprising, representing a threat to the lives and security of the Serb people. Those $$ spent promoting cooperation between Albanians and Slavs would be a complete waste unless they were preceded by forcing the Serbs to deal with the Albanians as equals. This will never happen as long as the Serbs believe they have the means to destroy the Albanians rather than trying to live with them. Somehow, when you realize that you stand just a good of chance of being the victim as the aggressor, when you've actually had to look down the business end of those guns instead of assuming that they're always going to be pointed the other way, diplomacy and negotiations seem a lot more desirable. Nine years of trying to convince the Serbs to seek peaceable resolutions should be long enough to convince anyone that words alone would never bring them to the bargaining table. Anyone who says otherwise is obviously working from a script that has the Serbs as the sole survivors in Kosovo. As a munitions specialist for more than thirty years, I always lived by the four credos of those who work with munitions. They may seem simplistic, but they were true, as is evidenced by the fact that I am still alive and have all of my appendages. 1)- "Limit any exposure to explosives to the fewest amount of people and the least amount of explosives, for the shortest amount of time" (Unless of course those people fall under the first category of credo #2) 2)- "There are only two categories of things in the world; targets and non-targets." 3)- "There is no problem so difficult that it can't be resolved with the SUITABLE application of high explosives." 4)-"If you see me running, try to keep up." If the Serbs show that they will abide by the accepted standards of civilized nations, and are willing to accept accountability for their transgressions, I think we may be able to change their category under credo #2. Until then, we should continue to seek a resolution through credo #3.