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To: Machaon who wrote (6491)	5/3/1999 1:58:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Robert, I understand your frustration with trying to debate me. :-) But really, if you have a point to make regarding my posts, then how about posting to me. After all, I may not read every poster. Robert, you have repeatedly stated that Milosovic killed tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, and now you seem to be inferring he has killed millions. Which is it? Or do you just post a number which suits your rhetoric at the given moment? Question: How many deaths can be attributed to Milosovic prior to the U.N. bombing exhibition? I believe you will find it numbers in the few thousand. Although it's despicable that even one innocent person should suffer political or racial intolerance in such a way. Using a few thousand people as a benchmark to invade another persons homeland will place U.S. service men and women in about 20 other places on the planet. Why only Kosovo and not everywhere else? All the arguments you make here regarding U.S. participation, can be made, in many way's with far greater moral authority, in a number of other places. Since you are not willing to die and play global policeman around the world. Then I can only expect you believe others should do it for you. That to me my friend is cowardess. And not in alignment with the U.N. charter, their belief's or the American peoples belief's. You seem to love talking on and on about the evil Serbian leader and their people. Do I sense a desire to ethnically cleanse the Serbs out of Kosovo from you? Besides, why don't you tell us about the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of Serbs who were killed by communist forces during the 40's, and describe who made up those forces. Why conveniently stop at ten years? Because it suits your rhetoric? You see Robert, as much as you would like to paint the Serbian people as the third Reich and Milosovic as their Hitler leader. The history and factual accounts of the region stand in stark contrast to this inflammed speech. Alan Keyes is right in his logic. This is not a Moral War for America in any stretch of the imagination. The fact that you and the supporters of this war turn a blind eye to the mass killing of innocent children and civilians speaks clearly to this reality. We have no strategic interest in Kosovo. We have no historical claim to the land or who should occupy it. This is a Yugoslovian and European problem. They are big boy's and girls now and should be able to handle this two-bit dictator on their own. Providing of course they have the leadership and guts of their convictions to do the dirty work of peace. I believe it would have provided a far better lesson to the European countries if America would have stayed out of it. Maybe the French, English, Germans Greece, Russian and Ukrainian governments would have actually put their large ego's aside and worked for the common good and peace of Europe. Instead of always relying on Mommy America, her purse and her children to do it for them. They have relied on America's free welfare security system for far too long. It's time they GREW UP and faced the music of what leadership and guaranteeing a lasting peace really means. This chapter in European history only further crystalizes they will do nothing in the future when another crisis happens unless America holds their hand and say's "it's ok we will show you the way". Yugoslovia and it's people's pathetic inability to come to some agreement after the horrors of WW2 and form a lasting peace, don't deserve ONE young Americans life. Especially given the history of the region and the likelyhood that it would be a complete waste. You can't force a people through bombs to change and put aside hundreds of years of bigotry and racism. Change has to come from within. Yugoslovia needs a Martin Luther King to rise from it's ashes. Michael