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To: goldsnow who wrote (10145)	5/27/1999 10:04:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Goldsnow, We can rebuild whoever we choose to rebuild. It's our money after all. Heck, Henry Morgenthau wanted to leave a defeated Nazi Germany devoid of any industrial capacity and maintain it as an agrarian society in order to prevent any future reoccurence of militarism. But then those nasty and aggressive Soviets made us think differently. But let's face it. One of the reasons that NATO has limited the nature or their attacks is that we all realize that we will have to rebuild Serbia in a post-Milosevic era. Instead of hitting power generation plants, we're hitting transmission facilities that can be repaired in a couple of weeks. We haven't hit the coal and lead mines to any damaging extent, nor have we really hit the transporation infrastructure like railroads or every bridge in the country. So given this understanding, the Serbs know that they will eventually find themselves in a better economic position than they have under Milosevic. His campaign of nationalism has come at the direct expense of the Serbian economy. They have suffered banks runs, hyper-inflation, incredible corruption, and long-suffered an economic embargo (which has been easily circumvented in most cases). So even before the bombing, Serbs were long suffering the economic effects of Milo's policies. Fixing their economy and returning a semblance of political freedom should quickly take their minds off of a territory that was populated by 90% ethnic Albanian. For most Serbs, battling over Kosovo may have a spirtual side, but it's far removed from the daily lives of the majority of Serbs living in the northern cities. But should there be continuing problems with the Serbs, I'm sure that economic aid could be better spent in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and directly in Kosovo. Then the Serbs will truly become an irrelevant power in the Balkans. The choice is theirs. Regards, Ron