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To: Meredith Cullen who wrote (5129)	4/23/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Respond to of 17770

Your response to nukie > There are lots of Serbs who don't support Mlvc There are sure a lot more Serbs who support him now thanks to the brilliance of Nato's strategy. > If NATO had any balls they would send in ground troops instead of resorting to bombing residences and TV stations. It is obvious Nato doesn't have any balls to take Kosovo... Nato is dead on arrival IMHO.

To: Meredith Cullen who wrote (5129)	4/23/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

So even you are fixated with testicle size? What is this, a chapter in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" that I missed when I was going through Air Force Leadership Academy and NATO tactical training? I can see it now; Sun Tzu elucidates, "Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened and your strength exhausted, the outcome of conflict is sure to be determined by the relative testicular magnitude of the opposing forces". Seriously Meredith, maybe you can explain to me how this layman's concept that war is about "balls" came about. "Balls" may count for something taking a dare to spend the night in the cemetery or in a pickled egg eating and beer chugging contest, but they don't have anything to do with waging war, unless that's the only resource you have to wage that war, in which case you are almost sure to have those balls blown to hell along with your arms, legs, and head. This is not a case of NATO strutting up to the Serbs and saying, "Show me yours and I'll show you mine". Your insistence that somehow this whole thing would be more "fair" if it involved a face to face confrontation between ground forces is naive and irrelevant. I can't understand this misguided demand that we must send in infantry to legitimize our mission, even if it is unnecessary. If it does come to a full scale confrontation on the ground it will be far more sanguinary and apocalytic than anything that has happened in the Balkans in their long, sad history of continuous war. Where our airstrikes are devastating to infrastructure and materiel within their limited scope, a ground attack would inflict a far higher casualty rate on humans. If it comes to that, then it comes to that, but if it does then just remember you asked for it. And what American atrocities in Viet-Nam are you talking about? Anything specific? Or are you referring to the garden variety bullshit claims of revisionists who were never there and who don't know what the fuck they're talking about or, perhaps, the propaganda claims of those who had an anti-American agenda and who knew they were lying in the first place? If indeed you feel that Americans weren't punished severely as a result of the Viet Nam war, then that only goes to show how sheltered you were during that conflict, as you most certainly are sheltered now while passing judgement on those who are placing themselves in harm's way to end a brutal, illegitimate war of ethnically inspired aggression. You may consider me a racist bastard. Your opinion on that is meaningless to me. While I am admittedly a bastard in the non lineage sense, I am not a racist. I may have killed because of the uniform someone wore that identified them as an enemy or because they were actively trying to kill me, I never killed based on someone's race or religion. That's something that untold thousands of Serbs can't say. As far as bombing TV stations and residences, they are legitimate targets. TV stations are communications. One of the first precepts of warfare is to destroy and disrupt communications. If, by residences, you are referring to Milosevic's villa, that is also a legitimate target. I find it hypocritical that the man responsible for razing the homes of countless thousands of defenseless civilians would even have the gall to insinuate that his home is somehow out of bounds. Have a nice day:-).