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Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9568)	5/23/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Ron, well that is a tall order isn't it? Let's see... First of all, anyone with a glimmer of geopolitical knowledge should have been taking proactive steps over a decade ago to head off this powder keg of a region. When the Berlin Wall fell a joint plan to ensure long-term peace in the region should have already been in place. But given the present situation as it is I would initially revisit the assumptions regarding the bombing and what it's supposed to achieve. Do you know, does anyone know? Then determine if this is an accurate assumption. We seem to be living under the belief that if we just bombed Kosovo and got rid of Milosovic our problems would be solved. What leads people to believe this? Is this a reasonable theory? The region has been fighting wars for over 500 years. What makes people believe that getting rid of Milosovic will begin an era of non-violence and tolerance? What makes people believe another Milosovic is not waiting in the wings to take up from where this one left off? Freedom, justice and security in my belief are three aspects of the same thing. They should not be separated, treating them in isolation has always been problematic. So we need all three of these concepts to coexist in Yugoslovia in order to ensure lasting peace. Well, how do we achieve them? How do we take a nation which has been at war with one another for centuries and begin to form a lasting peace? Will bombing the country do it? Will killing Milosovic do it? Will having an occupying force of NATO do it? That's the 6 million dollar question, and one which can't be answered without having a lot more information than is privy to us today. The question really is, should we have started this bombing war to begin with? Did it have a reasonable chance for success and of achieving a lasting peace? Does it look like it's going to work today? Does it have such a high propensity for success that it justifies killing more and more woman and children? I would say it has a very low probability for success. So it's time to stop the bombing and put on our thinking caps. What amazes me is that just because people can't say with certainty "Here is the solution". That the only solution in their eyes is to throw bombs all over the country and kill a lot of people. How many civilians are you willing to kill to get Milosovic? A thousand? ten thousand? fifty thousand? or maybe a million? If he continues to hunker down and accept the obliteration of his country, when does NATO say enough deaths is enough?? Don't you believe there is some other option out there except bombing Kosovo? I believe it's worth a try to find out. Michael