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| 1. | And what to do about the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia? End it now. It isn't going to work. Offer the Kosovans new homes elsewhere, and generous and humane treatment so the young people of Kosovo don't grow up with huge axes to grind. |
| 2. | And if anyone is passionate about solving the problems in Yugoslavia, let's move there and help them rebuild. Instead of sending ground troops, let's send our politicians, reporters and business leaders. Tony Blair and Al Gore, Ted Koppel and Wolf Blitzer. I'd like to see interviews with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at the airport in Tirana. If we aren't willing to make a personal committment to peace, then let's stop kidding ourselves about our will to stop despotism. War is serious shit. |
| 3. | And let's stop kidding ourselves that bombing other countries is a solution to any problem we have. All we're doing is creating new generations of people outside the US that hate us, and rightly so. Long after Clinton is gone we'll be explaining to the rest of the world why we stood by while our country turned to massive violence over intelligence. |
| 4. | Further, the country to be worried about is Russia, not Yugoslavia. We've humiliated them, they adopted our economic system, trusted us, and now we've abandonded them. If we work out a political solution with Moscow, Milosovic and the Serb private militia will not be able to stand up to us. NATO is a fine alliance, but a US-Russian alliance would be truly powerful. |
| 5. | Remember, they still have all the nukes they ever did. There's a lot of power there. We must respect it. Study history. Milosovic isn't the next Hitler, he isn't that powerful, Yugoslavia is a tiny country, and he doesn't control it. There are dozens of armies in Yugoslavia. More likely, the next world-class despot is going to be Yeltsin's successor. We'll pay attention then. Better sooner than later. |
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