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To: JBL who wrote (10029)	5/27/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Saddam is still in power, and we do not like to kill children, even indirectly (by damaging sanitation, drinking water, and the electricity essential to refrigeration and modern medicine) if it is avoidable and of dubious long- run utility. Forget dislodging Milosevic. Deal...

To: JBL who wrote (10029)	5/27/1999 9:07:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

I think you will realize that there isn't much Milosevic's opponents can do, and this largely because the morality of NATO's bombing has become dubious. Hence the idea of finally calling a spade a spade, or in this case, a war criminal. Milosevic wants to be able to leave a legacy of his regime, just like Clinton. Clinton might be referred to as a lying fool, but Milo will go down in the history books as a indicted war criminal and a special chapter will be set aside to discuss the reasons why. Was the NATO bombing of 1995 against Bosnian Serbs around Sarajevo morally wrong??? Was it morally wrong for Belgrade to send their jets in support of the Bosnian Serbs? Was it morally wrong that NATO jets have been enforcing a no-fly zone above Bosnia for years?? Btw, the UN authorized each of those actions, and would have authorized the current one had it not been for Bejing's and Moscow's intransigent opposition to resolving the problem with Milosevic. What is exactly IMMORAL in your eyes?? Any use of military force?? Any action not specifically endorsed by the security council at the UN?? As for what Milo's opponents can do, it is exactly what they HAVEN'T DONE over the past 10 years that is the problem. The majority of Serbs have not been willing to stand up for what is right and wrong with regard to dealing with their neighboring ethnicities. Instead they went along with Milo's nationalistic tripe because it made them feel good and distracted them from the overwhelming economic problems that Milo's regime has wrought on his country. That is why I believe the Serbian people's hands are not clean in this. They live too close to the problem, not thousands of miles away. They meet those who have dealt with the cleansing, whether perpetrated by Serbs, Bosnians, or Croatians. It simply doesn't take a genius to realize that much of what has transpired in Yugoslavia has been the result of Milo's oppressive, rather than inclusive, policies. His have been the politics of fear and brutality, not those of a true leader deserving to govern Yugoslavia. Regards, Ron