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She is gooooooooood aint she?

Richard Day — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:27:14 +0000

In reply to Very well stated! I

She is gooooooooood aint she?

Thank you Danny!

Very well stated! I

Danny Cardwell — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:01:03 +0000

In reply to How The Benghazi Committee Led Me To Hillary

Very well stated! I appreciate your writing!

Thanks, Dick. As much as we

Ramona — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:07:54 +0000

In reply to I again have no disagreement

Thanks, Dick. As much as we would like to believe otherwise, we're still a country that leans to the center. I love what Bernie is proposing. I love what Elizabeth Warren proposes. I love that Hillary is taking note and giving herself permission to lean farther in that direction, but if she leans too far, she'll lose. She knows that, too. It's a problem for her and we'll just have to see how she handles it over the coming months.

I again have no disagreement

Richard Day — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:42:38 +0000

In reply to How The Benghazi Committee Led Me To Hillary

I again have no disagreement whatsoever with your post.

There is evil in the world and we must find our greatest warrior.

That's okay.

I like Bernie.

But Hillary aint hay.

Hillary is a great statesman (stateswoman?)

WE NEED A WARRIOR.

And Senator or Secretary or whatever....is a warrior and she has proved it before Congressional Committees as well as many other venues.

Well put Ramona as always.

The alternative was to do

Aaron Carine — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:06:20 +0000

In reply to And after the number of Serb

The alternative was to do nothing, and that would have been better than what we did. Chomsky said that we should follow the Hippocratic maxim "first do no harm". That seems reasonable to me, although I didn't agree with everything Chomsky wrote about Kosovo.

And after the number of Serb

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:37:53 +0000

In reply to Nuts, I wrote Article 52 when

And after the number of Serb-caused mass graves in Bosnia and Vojvodina, how passive should we have been? I'm critical of the Libyan situation because it was mostly inflated rhetoric, but with Kosovo we had proven mass war criminals to deal with. You offer nothing of an alternative except to claim we made it wotse, so I suppose should have done nothing. Maybe give Milosevic a cookie?

Nuts, I wrote Article 52 when

Aaron Carine — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:27:31 +0000

In reply to So if we hadn't intervened,

Nuts, I wrote Article 52 when I meant Article 51.

I think it's unlikely that the ethnic cleansing would have been as bad without the bombing. According to Human Rights Watch, 2000 were killed in the year before the bombing, and several thousand were killed by the Serbs during the ten weeks of the bombing. HRW says Nato killed 500 civilians.

In Kosovo, we made the ethnic

Aaron Carine — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:23:42 +0000

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In Kosovo, we made the ethnic cleansing worse, killed civilians, opened the door to revenge killings of a thousand Serbs, and violated international law. I'd call it a disaster.

The 1995 bombing in Bosnia did something to end the war, but it came after Milosevic cut off military aid to the Bosnian Serbs, and after the Muslims and Croats joined forces, which made possible the kicking of Serb ass. So if anybody says that we could have fixed things at any time by dropping some bombs, I don't think I'd agree.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/yugo-hist4.htm

As I remember it--my memory is dimming, as it was awhile ago--Desert Fox was about punishing Iraq for failing to comply with the inspections regime(and maybe to distract people from the Lewinsky business). So it may have violated Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which says you can only use force if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations. Some might say that the armed attack against Kuwait provided legal justification for using force to enforce United Nations resolution(it doesn't say when you have to end the response to the attack; there may be room for interpretation).

Yes, let's please forget

Ramona — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:11:50 +0000

In reply to So if we hadn't intervened,

Yes, let's please forget about Monica. That was Bill, not Hillary.

So if we hadn't intervened,

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:42:16 +0000

In reply to In Kosovo, we made the ethnic

So if we hadn't intervened, the ethnic cleansing wouldn't have been so bad? Do you know the estimates of how many civilians killed by NATO bombings?

And not sure where Article 52 claims such a thing - so Article 52 would make illegal say to use force to prevent a Killing Fields in Cambodia or the genocide in Rwanda? skeptical.

And forget the Lewinsky business - more stupid conspiracy bullshit.