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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 836.1 | | JUPITR::HILDEBRANT | I'm the NRA | Fri Jan 28 1994 09:31 | 4 |
| I would send weapons to the Bosnia people so that they could defend
themselves.
Marc H.
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| 836.2 | | AIMHI::JMARTIN | | Fri Jan 28 1994 12:58 | 13 |
| I don't mean to belittle whats going on over there but I have to ask
it. What makes the US have a moral responsibility in Bosnia over the
24 other hot spots in the world. I was thinking in particular of
Angola. I vaguely remember learning that Monrovia in Angola was named
after President Monroe as it was establish as a free colony in the
17-1800's? Here is a country torn apart and began under a
European/American influence and foundation.
Help me if I got this wrong about Angola. I see a heart wrenching
crumbling society in Bosnia and am not belittling it. I guess the real
question is, Where does America draw the line?
-Jack
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| 836.3 | I'll keep on praying but don't know what else to do | CVG::THOMPSON | Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest? | Fri Jan 28 1994 13:03 | 10 |
| It seems to me that there is no solution in Bosnia that doesn't
involve military action. At least unless the combatants decide to
stop on their own and that's unlikely. Embargoes do not work. And
worse still they punish the innocent more then the guilty.
I don't know what the US should do. I don't know what Europe should
do. But for their own self interest, if nothing else, Europe should
be doing most of the "fixing" that goes on.
Alfred
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| 836.4 | | GRIM::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Fri Jan 28 1994 13:21 | 6 |
| Jack,
Monrovia is in Liberia, not Angola. Both Angola and Liberia have been
undergoing civil war.
-- Bob
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| 836.5 | | AIMHI::JMARTIN | | Fri Jan 28 1994 13:28 | 4 |
| Thanks, I was thinking there was a 50-50 chance I had the countries
confused.
-Jack
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| 836.6 | Where do we draw the line??? | CSC32::KINSELLA | Why be politically correct when you can be right? | Mon Feb 21 1994 18:33 | 36 |
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Jack raises an interesting question "Where does America draw the line?"
I think we'd all agree that we can't save the entire world from self-
destructing. But we can't just turn our backs either. War is a
horrible thing, but it's a reality in this world. I think we have to
try to pick the situations where we really do have a chance in ending
the violence quickly. I remember talking about this over a year ago
and there was a debate on whether we should bomb the Serbs one supply
route before they could get entrenched. Then and now that seems like
the most logical problem to ending the violence quickly in order to
try to give peace a chance. It wouldn't have been easy. But it seems
that if they could have managed for some fifty years to hold their
country together (albeit under an iron fist), there has got to be a
way to do it now.
Why Bosnia rather than Monrovia? I don't know. I do know that the
US has more interests in Europe and more allies to work with. Maybe
that's the definition of having a chance at a quick ending to the
violence. I don't really know. Maybe Bosnia is the beaten man on
the side of the road we're travelling and we're the Good Samaritan.
I mean look at Somalia. Gee, we were supposed to be there to deliver
food and it turned into a riotous situation to put it mildly. Sometimes
people pick the evil they know rather than the evil they don't know.
Maybe because we weren't in a neck of the woods where we are trusted...
maybe we to alien to them. I don't know what the US has been asked to
do in relation to Monrovia, but I do know we've been asked to help
in Bosnia. I don't think I could turn them away. Not after the
pictures and the stories that I've heard. I think we have got to
find some way to help. This doing nothing is only allowing more people
to be slaughtered. I remember a statement by Mother Theresa when asked
if she felt bad about not being able to help more people. Her response
was "No, I only help the ones God asked me to." Maybe if we were the
Christian nation we once were, we'd know which hot spots we were
supposed to be involved in.
Jill
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