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To: sheltonmac; JohnGalt
...it is clear that [Hanson] believed Milosevic was a threat to U.S. interests...

We're not talking about "interests." The charge was that Hanson believed Serbia "posed a threat to the United States." JohnGalt clearly wanted his readers to understand that Hanson believed Serbia posed military or security threat to the US, although now he seems to be backing off by saying things like "[Hanson believed] the Serbian intervention was completely justified." The dispute is not whether Hanson supported intervention or thought it was justified. It's whether he ever claimed that Serbia posed a military or security threat to the US.

Our "interests" are manifold, but those who can threaten us militarily constitute a very exclusive club of which Serbia is not a member. I doubt very strongly that Hanson has ever been in the least confused on that point.

24 posted on 08/01/2003 12:18:10 PM PDT by beckett
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To: beckett
My readers? You give me way too much credit.

You are debating semantics at this point to the question of whether VDH brings anything to the table when discussing current national security affairs.

My reading of his stuff tells me that in hindsight, he believes that the case could have been made that Serbia posed a threat to the United States. Did he mean this cynically perhaps? Fair, but I take him at his word.
25 posted on 08/01/2003 12:22:09 PM PDT by JohnGalt (They're All Lying)
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