From: NINT0oL-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:56:48 EDT
Subject: Re: NATO is boxed in...


In a message dated 4/2/99 1:08:24 PM EST, dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us writes:

<< Here is the take from Indy-by-gawd=-anna.  I'm not saying it's right, just
 that this is the way the cards are going to play out.  NATO has put their
 prestige behind stopping Milosevik's henchmen and their murderous rampage.
 Anybody who ever took military basic training knows that airpower can't
 win a war, infantry has to occupy the opponent's positions.  This was true
 in the gulf in '91 and it's true today >>

I still don't think this sounds much like a war. Well that is unless you 
consider a game of mercy a war. Right now NATO seams as though it is just 
trying to bend Milosevic's fingers far enough that he'll give in. That why 
we're bombing the hell out of them. Once ground troops are sent in, then it 
becomes a war. Until that point it's really just more of a rescue.
russ