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To: greenspirit who wrote (9582)	5/23/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

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. Agreed. But then again, hindsight is inevitably 20/20. Now that we're in this mess, and we can't relive the past, how would you resolve this issue beginning tomorrow?? Remember that these national leaders generally have FAR LESS understanding of their opponents than we'd think. Most politicians and Despots are not historians or deep thinkers. They deal with the here and now and whatever history they know they quickly manipulate and rewrite to their own advantage. The fact is that most leaders of a communist regime get there through sheer brute force and political intrigue. They fight constant internal battles and have to pay off quite a few folks in order to gain the support that they hold. So Michael, there is a whole lot of complaining about what is going on here, but none of helps us to "gameplay" how this thing is going to turn out. (afterall, that is what this thread was created for, right?? Discussing scenarios related to the Balkans??) That's why I asked if you had an ideas on a resolution. The problem with democracy is that we have quite a few arm-chair politicians and generals (including myself) bantering about what we should have done instead of what we're GOING to do, and what the ramifications may be for following a particular course of action. Regards, Ron

To: greenspirit who wrote (9582)	5/23/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

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? The killing was quite effectively halted after WWII. What started it again was the Serb insistence that they have a natural right to rule what was once Yugoslavia, and the understandable desire of the other ethnic groups to avoid Serbian domination. Anybody who pretends that this is a simple situation is wrong. We could simply ignore the situation. The result would be a program of ethnic cleansing and systematic genocide that would not stop until Serbs controlled all of what was once Yugoslavia. It might not stop even then. If that option is thought to be undesirable, what are the alternatives? I do not think much of the alternative now being pursued, but as I have nothing better to suggest, I don't feel entirely comfortable criticizing it. A choice between the intolerable and the impossible is never easy to make.