Re: Margolis on the tail wagging the dog

["Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sabri,

Put me in the anti-NATO camp and I'd send Milosevich home to Serbia if it
were up to me, since they could sort it out far better.

I'd say using the sort of reasoning which props up US foreign policy and the
use of its deadly power, Milosevic has not only argued his case well but won
it. Milosevic is far from the worst the 20th century gave us and he is on
trial while many others who should be aren't. The irony is, had he been
taken seriously in the first place, things would never have got so far out
of hand.
That's one problem with the 'imperial presidency' approach since the Reagan
era. The US regimes think if they engage people they disagree with or
dislike at a top diplomatic level (and the zealots at the State Department
have a lot to do with this), not only does it raise their opponent, but it
lowers the regal status of the office.

And just look at that part of the world now. No wonder more and more living
in the wreck of what was all of Yugoslavia are getting nostalgic. You never
know what you had til you've lost it. Be careful what you wish for, you
might get it. Etc. Etc.
I'm sure I'll get bombarded with all sorts of statistics and analysis
(probably from analysts at merchant banks, right) about what progress former
Yugoslav countries are making, but I'll believe it when they are ready to
host another Olympics.

Charles Jannuzi