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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8309)	5/13/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

If only it was so simple Ron. It will not be NATO - there will have to be a huge UN effort, and the Serbs will have to sign to any accord - and if I'm not wrong we'll still have to deal with Milsovich - and the biggest problem is going to be the KLA who we've bent over backwards to appease. You can't impose a solution which will only lead to more war. The Serbs were told 'take it or we'll bomb' - the situation still remains the same a million or so refugees later and billions of dollars of damage later. We learned from Versailles that you can't enforce humiliation on the vanquished, and the Serbs won't be even be vanquished, we've earned the hatred of an entire nation. d

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8309)	5/13/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Gord Bolton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

It is clear form your post that you have been diligently watching the situation for at least 500 years and have been personally responsible for keeping whatever peace there has been but somehow the forces of darkness tricked you for a moment and the only way to regain your omnipitance, omnipotence and virtue is to bomb another part of the country into the stone age. You refer to Serb forces leaving Kosovo. Others might see it as Yugoslavian forces surrendering a province of their country to a terrorist organization with external backing. Somehow, I think there will be a great deal more violence before people begin to talk and understand the complexities involved in restoring a peaceful atmosphere. The potential for people to engage in human cruelty is a very sad thing. Most people actually involved in conflict are repulsed by the violence. In more primitive times conflicts were often the result of mutual fear and prejudice. The realization that either side could inflict damage and pain to the other (if nothing else) sometimes ended the sabre rattling and demonstrations of bravado and provocation. The modern world allows the protaganists to engage in hostilities from hundreds of miles away from the actual field of conflict. I would prefer to see Milosovic and Clinton slug it out on WWF until they were tired, bored or unable to personnally continue.