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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8222)	5/13/1999 10:17:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 17770

Neither rrman nor I are denigrating the US - we're attacking this U.S. and Nato action - as are many others on this thread and elsewhere. And there is a difference, and flag waving cuts no ice with me - but provides cover against thought. There's no point, it seems, attacking past Chinese actions here - the country is in a very difficult transition and many of the reforms you hope for will come about - hopefully by evolution rather than revolution. But China will not become America and we should understand that. It's a far far older civilisation, and preaching by a youngster does not always fall on receptive ears. My comments about past U.S. actions were more in the context of the fear of casualties in the Kosevo situation - and to point out that this is part of a pattern established since Vietnam - but part too of America's immigrant history. WW1 and WW2, Korea, Vietnam were of course the great conflicts (the Us being late entrants to both the WWs) but the trauma of Vietnam took place in the TV era, and this has effected the nation's stomach for a ground war, and even the prospect of America actually truly winning any conflict - tech power notwithstanding. d