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To: Moonglow who wrote (5863)	4/29/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Juanita, Same goes for me. I actually see both sides of the situation. I feel sorry for both the Muslims (Albanians) and the Orthodox Christians (Serbs). My own family was "ethnically cleansed" in recent history. They were Mormons and because the local population in Navoo Illinois hated their religion and their leaders, they burned their houses. My ancestors were told "Leave or burn in your house". They left, many of them in the middle of the night with nothing but their clothes on their backs. The leader of the church, Joseph Smith, was lynched from prison and shot by a mob. The church leaders debated following the Menonites into Mexico where they would be safe from the American ethnic cleansers, but then the Mexican-American war broke out in 1846 and the Mormons fled west to the territory of Utah. Anyway, I think that the best thing to do with the Balkans is leave it be. Our intervention seems to be having the effect of making things worse all around, just as our intervention in Viet Nam simply spread the carnage. Yesterday, a vote in Congress fell only a little short that would have pulled our troops out. A confidence vote on NATO action was split; 213-213. It seems to me that there is little support for Bill Clinton's intervention in a civil war that has been going on for over six centuries. -John