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To: mark502inf
"Not that I'm accusing you of being such a person."

I'm kind of glad you don't.
Point is that we had no business there in the first place.

That and my opinion that the contractors who flocked to Kosovo were pimps, including some I'd served with in the old days; but I don't accuse you of being such a person.

31 posted on 11/23/2004 6:24:26 PM PST by norton
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To: norton
Point is that we had no business there in the first place.

That's an arguable point with which I largely agreed at the time. The humanitarian intervention rationale suffers by comparison with more drastic siutations elsewhere. The national interest argument was based on the threat to regional stability--it was our primary rationale, but not very compelling; although such as George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain, Colin Powell, & Don Rumsfeld all saw it differently and supported the 1999 Kosovo War.

Regardless of whether you find the rationale for war convincing or not, the evidence of Serb culpability in widespread criminal attacks against the civilian populace in Kosovo is overwhelming and utterly convincing. Too many people who opposed the war have adopted a corollary position that the various warcrimes and ethnic cleansing cited in support of the war therefore did not occur. The facts on the ground do not support that position.

Sorry to disappoint on the contractor pimp front, but I was on active duty during the Balkans phases of my career.

32 posted on 11/23/2004 7:14:11 PM PST by mark502inf
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