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The fact is The United Nations has been bypassed; and, toothless as it may appear, the UN must remain the highest authority. NATO can't pick and choose; OK for Iraq, (UN resolution numbers were quoted then until we were all dizzy) but not for Serbia. Sorry, it doesn't wash. The thinking is off-whack and dangerously arrogant. Also, the incompetence and lack of perception at this level of violence, is truly frightening.
NATO is now an aggressor, whether it likes it or not. NATO (sic) has made a big mistake. Big cops. Loose guns. Imperialists. This is the kind of language you can expect to hear. They will not be trusted by different cultures, away from the Atlantic rim. It will not be long, if a global war is averted, before other fragile territories are brutalised into shape, by different big boys with guns, confident; now that the UN is impotent, and now that NATO is licking it's wounded pride, daring not to get involved; after this fiasco. And, if a global war is not averted I will be expected to fight for (or at least support) NATO, and I'm going to find that difficult, very difficult indeed.
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We have differences. Vive le difference, as we say in Europe.
Yours sincerely,