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To: JBL who wrote (8594)	5/16/1999 7:47:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

JBL -what a very good article - we are indeed in the middle of a debacle, and the Kosevars the terrible victims - and the good people of Yugoslavia too - and in most ways this is true of the good people of Iraq too - the forgotten people behind the embargoes and continuing bombing. d

To: JBL who wrote (8594)	5/16/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

JBL--- I am a "charter subscriber" to the National Interest, and I respect Harries a lot. I disagree that this would have been inconsequential had we not interfered, and I disagree with him on NATO expansion, but most of the article is incisive. He tends to be a more traditional balance of power realist, and to imagine that now that the Cold War is over, we can safely return to a more conventional equilibrium model of international relations. I disagree. With the genie of revolutionary ideologies out of the bottle, and a lot of historic bitterness and fear towards recent aggressor nations, I think that only by America aggressively taking a leading role can the international system achieve some kind of stability...