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To: goldsnow who wrote (8440)	5/14/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Rhetoric?? I didn't say that I wasn't willing to take chances. Only that it is unfortunate that the US administration was not proactive enough to prevent being backed up into a foreign policy "corner" that required military action. Your solution seems to be that all political leaders who don't care to accomodate their marginal populations, now have free reign to murder and ethnically cleanse them without fear of retribution. And in doing this, they can force their neighbors to face floods of displaced refugees and the instability that creates in their societies. Whether they want to admit it or not, the Serbian people bear culpability for entertaining and tolerating Milosevic's nationalist policies of ethnic intolerance. Just as the Germans empowered Hitler through their unwillingness to oppose him, the same goes with the Serbs. And just as the Germans of the Nazi era have grown to regret the horrors their gov't agents inflicted upon innocent civilians, the Serbs must now deal with their legacy of the past 10 years+. The Kosovo problem did arise in a vacuum. It was the result of a calculated policy on the part of Milosevic and his cronies to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE not to assimilate Kosovo Alvanians into the national gov't in Belgrade. They provided the prologue in the same what that Hitler's Nazi party used Krystalnacht to create public tolerance for nationwide ethnic intolerance. And "gas" camps and refugee camps do have a comparison. Both are the result of nationwide policies aimed at removing an "undesirable" population from their homes and neutralizing them as a political force in a nation. One is just more permanent than the other. Regards, Ron