Medhat,

    American Abolitionists and Pres. Wilson are very much to the point of refuting your historical inaccuracy of claiming that Clinton invented humanitarian wars.

    NATO is, of course, led by the US but not dictated to, because we are the only superpower in the world and the most powerful nation.  But if we exerted that influence too extremely, we would soon lose it, particularly since certain nations, such as France, as so extraordinarily jealous of the USA's usurping their former standing in the world.

    For the record, I am in favor of USA intervention, under the guise of the UN, not only to help the Tamils, but to wake up that inept and corrupt organization.  Don't forget that the UN was the organization that waged the Korean War.

    You know as well as I why President Clinton cannot intervene for the Tamils:  you and our group are amongst the very few who have even heard of them, they have no loud constituency in the US (like the Jews, Cubans, etc.), and they are too poor to buy Congressmen (both Communist China and KuoMingTang Taiwan), and if he made any such move, the Republicans, who are far more cynical than the Democrats, would jump all over him.

    Yet do not think for a moment that I condemn your sincere counter opinions.  In a situation so complex good men can truly differ on means without being labeled "war criminals" because they cannot adequately control infuriated revenge-seeking Albanians who act like inept political adolescents as unable to rule themselves democratically as their oppressors.  There is only one set of war criminals today, the Serb, Turkish, Arab etc. governments that use state terrorism in an attempt to solve their political problems, not the USA and NATO which is trying to act as a world policeman

Steve
June 29, 1999