Very perceptive, Mr. Lind! Your assessment and choice of historical precedents are essentially correct. Your suggestions sound all too sensible. But...The Bush Administration does not like the appearance of backtracking on anything.
The Serbs's hands are not all that clean themselves. I listened to the reaction of Under-Secretary of State Burns to the Serbian actions against our embassy in Belgrade. He rebuffed the interviewer's suggestion that there was some validity to the Serbian outrage. To paraphrase, Burns regards Serbian nationalistism as neo-Nazi-ism. In short, Serbian feelings, wishes, rights etc. have no bearing. I don't see this administration wavering, no matter how much this offends the Russians or the Serbs.
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Excellent diagnostic of USA's blaring foreign policy's ineptitude. When the Berlin Wall crumbled along with the Soviet Union a friend of mine said, "Boy are we in BIG TROUBLE. The Soviet Union was the only glue in Europe that kept the peace by keeping tabs on her territory. Now that the Soviet Union's glue has evaporated ethnic cleansing will begin to flare up in all the little hot spots the former Soviet Union policed. The sad thing is NATO will not replace the former Soviet Union's glue thereby insuring the eventual erosion of civil law within her former territories".
My astute friend's synopsis of post Soviet Union ethnic fragmentation will test an already laughable United Nation's will to work for world peace and NATO is a joke. The arms dealers of the world are elated that the COLD WAR is about to boil over.
Too bad about the Soviet Union. Sure, the Soviet "glue" involved the murder of millions of people, but at least they weren't motivated by ethnic cleansing. Of course, the Ukrainians and most of the other non-Russian Soviet ethnic groups might beg to differ.
Too bad about the Soviet Union. Sure, the Soviet "glue" involved the murder of millions of people, but at least they weren't motivated by ethnic cleansing. Of course, the Ukrainians and most of the other non-Russian Soviet ethnic groups might beg to differ.
Check you facts. Most of those millions who were murdered were Russians (including some of my family).
Hard to believe we would see support of Mr. Lind here? Usually the guy is villfied.
I don't know, and maybe it is me but has, and is this administration been all about pizzing off as many countries and people as possible throughout the world? It seems like we get along with only the British, and that relationship is becoming strained. Is there anyone who has at least a high school diploma and read a little bit of world history in the administration? And yet, the thought of breaking Iraq up in a similar way is repugnent to them! Are we dealing with a bunch of people who all suffer from bipolarism or some other form of psychological malady? Was, and is part of their plan to have the world in as much turmoil as possible? Or are they just plain stupid? I know 'stupid is as stupid does' or some such thing. Maybe that's how they make their decisions, using a box of chocolates? The ones that taste good, they make one decision, the ones that taste bad, they make another. Or maybe, it's like pin the tail on the donkey, only they use a list of decisions instead of a picture of an azz?
