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1. Watching Al Gore on Larry King last night I believe more and more that we need TNN, True Network News. King tosses softballs and Gore responds with bedtime stories. They switch so easily to extremist hyperbole about the monsters of Belgrade and the monsters of Littleton. How to prevent one? How to prevent the other? Gore says we have to get images of violence off TV. Good point. Now, who's putting most of the violent images on TV? Bombs falling on Belgrade. That's mass-scale violence, and it's real violence, not imaginary stuff. Lots more people are dying in Belgrade than in Colorado. King fails to ask the obvious question. What kind of example are you setting for your high school students?
2. Gore and Clinton preach love, understanding and healing, while they bomb and kill people in Yugoslavia. We must be stupid to fall for this crap over and over. Here's what we go for. The idea that we're innocent. We're not. In the last few years we've bombed four countries, Afghanistan, The Sudan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia and maintain an occupation force in Saudia Arabia. I warn you now, it's going to come home to roost. I believe that what goes around comes around, you reap what you sow. Soon we'll be expressing horror at bombings in US cities. It'll be harder to think clearly then.
3. If there's a god orchestrating this he or she must be apalled at our stupidity. How do we solve problems? We taught those kids so well. Bomb your enemies and then point the gun at your head and pull the trigger.
4. It doesn't work. You end up with a bunch of dead people and the problems are still there, only they're worse.
5. Bombing Yugoslavia is the cowardly thing to do. Stay focused on the goal. Let's save the Albanians from ethnic cleansing. Get them out of there as fast as possible, and then build a wall around Yugoslavia in cooperation with Russia. Use our alliance to be unified, not to drive down the road to contradiction. There is no point fighting a major conventional war in in Yugoslavia, that will just kill a lot of the people we claim to want to protect and puts us at odds with Russia. For what purpose?
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