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To: Stormweaver who wrote (7169)	5/7/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

<<But the U.S. has now set a precedent. They come running in guns a blazing and bombs a 'dropping whenever they feel like taking sides in a civil dispute. I think that the Palestinians would very much like their own autonomous region inside Israel - wouldn't you agree ? How about the Kurds in Turkey; the Turks have slaughtered some 37,000 of them since 1983 and they are one of the original 14 NATO nations?>> Come on James, I know you're more informed than that. You act as if the US has invented interventionism! You forget who pushed this conflict, it was not the US, it was EUROPE that stood firm. Precedent nonsense. This whole thing will be remembered for precisely what it is: a major miscalculation and a tremendous mistake. The US and Europe no doubt will be very wary of any furthur adventures in the near future. And you certainly can not set a precedent for other countries to emulate when they already practice the behavior that allegedly is to be emulated. Sure the Palestinians would like a nation within Israel, what do you think the PLO has been doing for the past 40 years? What do you think the raging fire that is even now consuming Africa is? A mudwrestling convention between Hutus and Tutsis? How about the proxy war being waged between Iran and Iraq? Lets get beyond proxy, what about Vietnam invading Cambodia or Britain intervening on behalf of Cecil Rhodes against the Boers in S. Africa? Interventionism is as old as the nation-state, older even. In another month or two this will all be over, Kosovo will be another catchphrase for the history books, and the world will go on as it always has. "No one remembers the Armenians" and no one will remember the Kosovars or the fiasco which brought them to world attention.