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Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5724)	4/28/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

What do you mean, James: I fully comprehend the power of the U.S. military; it's a huge war machine that is at the beckon whim of a draft dodging perjurer Clown in Chief. Mark my words, these kind of blind, moronic interventionism will come back to haunt the west in the future. The U.S. can't just go around forever enforcing their will/values with their might. ? So, the U.S. should play it ''low-profile'' and let all the totalitarian regimes in the world on the loose?? I'm grateful to the U.S. for the THERAPY they are currently enforcing in Serbia... and so will the Serbians themselves be in a couple of years when they'll understand what a collective folly Milosevic brought them into. I remember that, not so long ago, people were accusing the U.S. of waging a war for OIL, for ELECTORAL/DOMESTIC policy (storming of Granada Island), or as a testing wargame (Panama: 1st time stealth aircrafts were used), or for some other trivial, $-related reason. This time, in Kosovo, there's at least one good ethical reason in the U.S.'s bag: preventing a fascistic, ethnic-minded regime from POLITICALLY contaminating neighboring countries! Obviously, as in any large-scale geopolitical trauma, THERE'RE ALWAYS OTHER LESS ALTRUISTIC INTERESTS to be found on the agenda --you can't help it: the US are a superpower, not a philantropic club! Therefore, the worst scenario would have been for the U.S. to stay idle, and just sit and watch Milosevic's ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. Then you'd have heard all these impotent intellectuals screaming: ''Hey, f**** Yankees, your guns are good for securing the US's oil supply ONLY!! Kosovars aren't worth a gallon of Arabic crude!'' Fighting for democratic value will pay off: Arab people throughout the world will remember the U.S. for their saving of the Muslim Albanians. Oh! BTW, can someone quote me an opinion by some high-ranking personality of the Catholic (or Protestant) Church?? I can tell you that, over here, in Continental Europe, not a single kind word was piped about the Kosovo from within the Catholic Church --except this moronic statement from the Pope about abortive pills... Then, tell me about MORAL VALUES!!!!

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5724)	4/29/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: Moonglow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Jim, Personally, I wouldn't want to be part of either group. I don't want to be the Serbians on the ground with Apache helicopters coming at me, nor do I want to be one of the U.S. military personnel in the helicopter with a Serbian stinger chasing me down. I don't mind admitting that I am way too chicken. I really take umbrage at the thought of strangers shooting at me or vice versa. That's just not me. I'd rather go hide behind a rock or something. Juanita