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intervention must be avoided. Period.
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 Military
intervention is always a mixed blessing at best. The loss
of lives, however well intentioned, is a painful process
which should be avoided, period. When [Archduke Franz]
Ferdinand was shot [in 1914], a long procession of treaties
and alliances came into play, which, if the eventual consequences
could have been foretold, would not have been enforced.
We now live in a world where city scale bombs are common,
and the means to stop them are few and very chancy. Given
this dismal state of affairs, we should use all means
other than military before risking the worsening of an
already deadly situation.
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Where's
the anger at "ethnic cleansing"?
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I
am sorry for Mrs. Bankovic's loss, as I know everyone
who reads her story is. [Mrs BanKovic lost her daughter
in the NATO bombing of Serbia's television station].
I just cannot understand how she can hold NATO as
guilty as the Government of Yugoslavia? Was NATO
on the ground fine-tuning the art of "Ethnic Cleansing"?
Where is her anger at those who were killing based
on just the race/ethnicity of others? There are
always going to be conflicts based upon race and
religion, and there is nothing we can or should
do about it. That said, however, the line must be
drawn in obvious situations like this or what happened
in Rwanda. The civilized Christian governments sat
by on the sidelines during the Second World War
and did nothing to stop, halt, or even slow down
what they (America, Britain, France, Russia) knew
the German government was doing. The rail lines
could have been bombed, the camps themselves could
have been hit. Would it have completely stopped
what happened? No, it would not have. Though it
could have cut the figures dramatically down. Any
opportunity lost to save a life is a chance that
has been squandered. We as a global community can
ill afford to have this happen. We also have to
be willing to lay blame.
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