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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (10769)	5/31/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

I wonder if you even bothered to read my post... No George, I read your post (And I just reread it in case I had misunderstood you). You stated that this conflict is striking close to home so you feel you need to protest. Yet you supported Desert Storm where up to 80,000 people were killed, several hundred of which were "innocent civilians" in Baghdad and Basra. (Btw, many of those soldiers were forced into fighting for Hussein, living in bunkers with just as many mines BEHIND their positions as in front of them in order to prevent their desertion, thus were "innocents" as well). You stated you didn't care about the Afghans either. Well, George if this crisis is striking too close to home, maybe you'd better reassess what is at stake here. We have over 1/2 the world's economy in recession or close to it. Europe's economy requires DRASTIC overhauling in order to increase productivity, reduce their deficit spending, and fully integrate the former communist economies. Russian realizes this and is attempting to destabilize Europe as it fears the potential power of the European Community should they work out their problems. Essentially Russia will be forced to either join the EU and lose its sovereignty and "greatness", or forever remain a backwater economy losing more and more economic ground until it becomes an economic irrelevancy. Moscow realizes that Milosevic is a thorn in NATO's side and properly manipulated can distract NATO militarily and economically sowing confusion and indecision among the alliance. Any success they achieve provides them that much more "breathing space" in order to restore some semblance of a power balance on the continent. Should Europe erupt into turmoil over a Balkan war and find Greece and Turkey going to war with each other (they're just looking for a good excuse it seems), the repercussions will be more than military. We will see a complete collapse in economic confidence, a break-up of the EU, and quite possibly a return to economic protectionism. Should those events occur, I can guarantee you that the repercussions of such instability will have greater impact on your "home" than you are currently aware of. Folks had better start thinking about the stakes here and reach beyond just a assessment of the immediate crisis. Think about the geo-political consequences. So for those reasons, I find your sudden anti-war mentality hypocritical and based upon a shaky premise. JMHO. Regards, Ron