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To: JBL who wrote (7527)	5/9/1999 8:10:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 17770

"But Milosevic has shown conclusively what everyone except President Clinton and Madeleine Albright already knew: that you can't win wars by air strikes alone - you have to get your boots dirty. One of the big problems of the modern world is that the United States isn't prepared to get its boots dirty, and hasn't yet realised that you can't be a superpower if you daren't fight wars" Exactly.

To: JBL who wrote (7527)	5/9/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

From the moment it becomes clear that negotiations are on their way, any further bombing will become purely cosmetic: which will no doubt be a great comfort to those poor unfortunates who will still be killed by pilot errors. In the end, Nato will declare a great victory, meaning that it has managed to get through without actually breaking apart. And when the smoke clears, there will be Slobodan Milosevic, shaking hands with everyone. Maybe it is just a bad dream, and Milosevic will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by imagining that he can refuse to compromise at the key moment. But don't count on it. I've got a depressing feeling that this past week of bloody, unnecessary horrors, military blunders and political manoeuvring has fixed the outcome.--- From the Electronic Telegraph(UK), full piece quoted in the post to which I am responding... I just wanted to make sure that all got the gist, JBL...