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To: Enigma who wrote (10098)	5/27/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Blair--- Chuck him!!! Bring back Maggie...

To: Enigma who wrote (10098)	5/27/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 17770

My relative in France asked me over the phone: "What are you rambos doing?"

To: Enigma who wrote (10098)	5/27/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

DoubleD, I agree that we're coming to a crucial point as to where this crisis is heading, peace or war. Both sides continue to up the "anty" in this poker game. The Russians continue to attempt to split NATO, applying the bluster and rhetoric of the Cold War in order to intimidate the less stout members of the alliance. Moscow and Bejing's interests in Serbia are far less than they are for Europe and the US. Though they claim to have had an historic "relationship" with Serbs, this is sheer BS. The Russians have consistently used the Serbs as a bargaining chip in order to extract more concessions from the west. Bejing is essentially using the crisis to impede and frustrate a peaceful resolution of the Balkans problem, also in an apparent attempt to leverage their strategic position vis a vis the US. Both realize that the more occupied the US and Europe is with the Balkans, the more they can extend their influence elsewhere where there is a vacuum of US attention. We may very well have to settle for something less than complete victory and Milo may stay in power over the short-term, but Serbs will come to realize, like it or not, that the only way back to some semblance of economic health is to concede to NATO's demands. The alternative is to find everything they desire destroyed. Certainly provoking a total war is in no one's interests. And no one wants this crisis to end more than the US and NATO. But they want it ended in a way that creates a framework for tolerance and cooperation in the future, a cure rather than a temporary band-aid like the one we "applied" when we bombed the Serbs in '95. Regards, Ron