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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (45671)	5/4/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Can Clinton Be Trusted In Kosovo? WILLIAM SAFIRE, New York Times Tuesday, May 4, 1999 CONGRESS IS NOT only ambivalent about buying into ''Clinton's War,'' it is also of two minds about being ambivalent. That is because the war to make Kosovo safe for Kosovars is a war without an entrance strategy. By its unwillingness to enter Serbian territory at the start, NATO conceded defeat. The bombing is intended to coerce the Serbian leader to give up at the negotiating table all he has won on the killing field. He won't. He will make a deal. By urging that Russia be the broker, Clinton knows he can do no better than compromise with criminality. That means we are not fighting to win but are punishing to settle. Small wonder that no majority has formed in Congress to adopt the McCain- Biden resolution giving the president authority to use ''all necessary force'' to achieve a clear victory. Few want to go out on a limb for Clinton knowing that he is preparing to saw that limb off behind them. Clinton has so few followers in Congress because he is himself the world's leading follower. He steers not by the compass but by the telltale, driven by polls that dictate both how far he can go and how little he can get away with. The real debate, then, is not intervention versus isolation, not sanctity of borders versus self-determination of nations, not Munich versus Vietnam, not NATO credibility versus America the globocop. The central question is: Do we trust this president to use all force necessary to establish the principle that no nation can drive out an unwanted people? The answer is no. The distrust is palpable. Give him the tools and he will not finish the job. Proof that such distrust is well founded is in the erosion of NATO's key goal: muscular protection of refugees trusting enough to return to Kosovo. At first, that was to be done by ''a NATO force,'' rather than U.N. peacekeepers. The fallback was to ''a NATO-led force,'' including Russians. Now the formulation is ''ready to lead,'' if anybody asks, or ''a force with NATO at its core,'' which means Serb- favoring Russians, Ukrainians and Argentines, with Hungarians and Czechs to give the illusion of ''a NATO core.'' If you were an ethnic-Albanian woman whose husband had been massacred, sister raped, children scattered and house burned down on orders from Belgrade -- would you go back home under such featherweight protection? Only a fool would trust an observer group so rotten to its ''core.'' And yet that is the concession NATO has made even before formal negotiations begin. What can we expect next? After a few more weeks of feckless bombing while Milosevic completes his dirty work in Kosovo, Victor Chernomyrdin or Jimmy Carter or somebody will intercede to arrange a cease-fire. Film will be shot of Serb tanks (only 30 were hit in a month of really smart bombing) rolling back from Kosovo as bombardment halts and the embargo is lifted. Sergei Rogov, the Moscow Arbatovnik, laid out the Russian deal in Sunday's Washington Post: (1) autonomy for Kosovo but no independence or partition; (2) Milosevic's troops out but Serb ''border guards'' to remain in Kosovo, (3) and peace ''enforcers'' under not NATO but U.N. and Helsinki Pact bureaucrats. As a grand concession, NATO would be allowed to care for refugees in Albania and Macedonia. That, of course, would be a triumph for mass murderers everywhere, and Clinton will insist on face-savers: war-crimes trials for sergeants and below, a Brit and a Frenchman in command of a NATO platoon of Pomeranian grenadiers, no wearing of blue helmets and absolutely no reparations to Serbia. And what will happen to the principle of no reward for internal aggression? It will be left for resolution to our next president, who, in another test, will have the strength of the people's trust.

To: jlallen who wrote (45671)	5/4/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

JLA--- Tell it, brother. And the congregation says "Amen"...By the way, if Wilma is as intimately involved in her stocks as she seems to claim, there is reason to doubt her immense position...

To: jlallen who wrote (45671)	5/4/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

U.S. says one Cuban seeking asylum Cuban government denies reports of defections Associated Press BALTIMORE, May 4 — Six Cubans missed the flight home today after the game with the Baltimore Orioles, and a U.S. law enforcement official said at least one person was being processed for possible asylum. A spokesman for the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington denied any Cubans had defected. I am surprised there were not more!

To: jlallen who wrote (45671)	5/4/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Out of the mouths of babes! Miss. Youths Say Parents To Blame In Shootings By June Preston May 4 4:01pm ET JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - Survivors of a school shooting blamed parents Tuesday for an epidemic of violence in the United States that has resulted in gun-toting youths taking aim at classmates and teachers more than a dozen times. Survivors of the Oct. 1, 1997, Pearl High School shooting in Pearl, Mississippi, and their peers from nearby schools spoke frankly as they told the National Association of Attorneys Generals what needed to be done to end the bloodshed. ``If parents were really open, if the teachers were open, these things would probably never happen,'' said LaToya Redd, an 18-year-old senior at Pearl High School. ``If a parent sat down and talked with kids for 30 minutes every night, instead of letting them watch some show, this wouldn't happen,'' she said. ``The parents really need to be there for the kids. It's really important.'' More than three dozen youngsters had come to vent their feelings a year and a half after 16-year-old Luke Woodham, who claimed he was possessed by demons, stabbed his mother to death and then took a gun to school in Pearl, just across the river from Jackson, where he killed two classmates and wounded seven others. They also talked about the deadliest yet school shooting two weeks ago at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where 15 people died and 23 were wounded. They said parents in Littleton should spend time with their children in the aftermath of that tragedy. ``All you have to do as adults is be there, because we are resilient. We will bounce back,'' said Mara Villa, 18, a senior at Pearl High School. Many of the youngsters said parents -- several mentioned single parents -- were to blame for the violence because they failed to listen to youngsters who felt isolated and out of step with their peers. Some said teachers shared responsibility because youngsters did not trust them enough to alert them when they knew a fellow student was contemplating a violent act or had brought a gun to school. ``We don't have somebody we can trust to tell,'' one youngster said. ``You have a lot of teachers who care, but some of them are just there for their careers. They don't care. A lot of them don't care.'' The state attorneys general had already scheduled their conference on school violence when Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, staged a deadly rampage in Colorado. That episode followed at least 12 other U.S. school shootings over the past six years. In a daylong session Monday, the attorneys general had spoken out against a culture of violence and about the availability of guns in the United States, where the right to keep firearms is protected by the Constitution. Not all of the youngsters agreed that guns were the problem, however, and at least one said he thought weapons might be part of the solution. ``I think a security officer is good but I don't know if it's enough because they had a security officer at Columbine and kids knew about it,'' Ryan King, 16, a sophomore at nearby St. Andrews High School, said, adding that the solution might be to arm the teachers. ``We trust them with our children's lives, we trust them with our souls essentially, we trust them to educate us,'' he said. ``We should trust our teachers to defend our children in what are, in essence, terrorist attacks.'' Pearl School Superintendent William Dodson said he did not favor putting guns into the hands of teachers. ``There may be a lot of things I would change, but I would not advocate teachers carrying guns,'' he told Reuters. Dodson said the Pearl school system has begun to recover from the tragedy but, ``It will be painful for a long time to come. It's like a death in the family. This can happen anywhere. It's not just a problem here, it's a problem all over the United States.''