FW: Re: In the interests of peace...

1999-03-23 Thread pete
"Douglas P. Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like all of us, I have my blind spots, and I may well have wasted your time on a silly idea, I just don't know. If so, I'm sorry. I honestly thought it worth posting. I still think it was -- but what about the rest of you, the other people on

Re: FW: Re: In the interests of peace...

1999-03-23 Thread Eva Durant
Recognizing independence unqualified is not a good idea - though you probably are aware of this, it can be the start of wars rather than the end. The hasty recognition of Croatia by Germany and then the West, without any guarantees of minority rights, started the whole damn yugoslav war.

FW: Re: In the interests of peace...

1999-03-23 Thread pete
Bob McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pax vobiscum. What do Jay Hanson, Thomas Lunde and Douglas P. Wilson have in common? The common sense to realize that things can't go on the way they're going, and we can either choose our new vision of the future, or have it forced upon us by events?