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

To: jlallen who wrote (45806)	5/5/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Maybe, but don't forget that Austria and Germany absorbed a number of refugees from earlier conflicts, and that it exacerbated neo- Nazi activity; that there is a potential for further eruptions in Bosnia and Croatia; that no one wants the Russians to dominate the Balkans through Serbian proxies; that Italy has already had a massive problem with illegal immigration from Albania, which could easily be exacerbated by the influx of Kosovar Albanian refugees into Albania proper; that Macedonia not only has a large ethnic Albanian enclave, but that it is largely ethnically related to the Bulgarians, and that Greece is hostile, so that there is a potential to drag Bulgaria (non- NATO) and Greece (NATO) into a regional war; that Turkey has reason to intervene, not only because of Muslim affinities, but due to its pre-existing hostility to Greece, thus dragging another NATO member into a regional war, this time against a fellow member; that France and the UK have traditionally had Great Power interests in the Balkans, and may want to reassert themselves---- I could probably think of some more things, but I tire of the exercise. The point is, the Europeans have plenty of reason to be interested.