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To: Dayuhan who wrote (36727)	5/3/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Here, I am NOT with you, Steve. You say: Armed citizenries do not stand well against armies. If the Kosovars were armed, the Serbs would be holding the towns and the Kosovars would be harassing them from the countryside. And the Chechens? Surely you don't think that was really an "army" that eventually forced the Russians out of Chechnya? It was not exactly an "armed citizenry", but a huge proportion of Chechen males put in a stint with the mostly improvised guerrilla bands, because bearing arms and fighting off intruders had always been part of the Chechen tradition -- indeed integral to the Chechen self-image. True, for a good while the Russians "held the cities" and the Chechens quite simply "held out" in the the countryside, but remember what happened at the end! I would not have believed the Chechens could have defeated the Russian Army, with all its planes & tanks & bombs & etc. -- if I had not seen it with my own eyes. I think it may be a question of the traditions & temperament of the citizenry. If the Czechs had all been armed in 1968, would they have resisted the Russian Army? Somehow, I rather doubt it. What about the Albanians? I would suspect they have a more warlike tradition. They are a mountain people (like the Chechens), and the little I know about them indicates that they were very tough cookies in the past. So -- who knows? Joan