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To: JMS

Clearly you know little of the US armed forces and their motivation to fight what was a clear and present danger in Iraq as opposed getting involved with the destruction of a fellow European country in violation of the Helsinki accords. The European forces were ostensibly brought in as peace keepers, not as a fighting force and have not even been effective in keeping Serbian churches from being destroyed. If they are not motivated to keep the peace, there is little reason to believe they would be motivated to go into combat.


it´s true that the troops (including US) now fullfill peacekeeping operations in kosovo. but this does not mean that they would not be able to fight if needed. (btw. there will be no war over kosovo all different sides statet this allready). why do you say that they are not motivated to bring peace? ok in a perfect world our millitary could prevent every thing (including protecting this serbian churches for example. but this wolrd is far away from perfect.) so you say because only they are not able to prevent everything that they are not motivated? are your troops not motivated too in afghanistan or iraq for example? because it looks like they are not able to prevent all violence there. it will never be possible to stop everything but this does not mean that the troops are not motivated.


27 posted on 01/03/2008 1:33:28 PM PST by austrian
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To: austrian

No K-Force troops have done anything to prevent Albanian violence against the Serbs and Serbian cultural institutions so even in an imperfect world there has been no effort made to prevent violence. Your analogies to Iraq and Afghanistan do no stand up as the vast majority of areas in those countries are pacified precisely because of the motivated actions of the US and our allies, many of whom are European. No one is speaking about preventing all violence but at least an effort should be made. As such, there is no reason to believe an effort would be made to fight against a determined foe in Kosovo.


28 posted on 01/03/2008 2:30:20 PM PST by JMS
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