CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence AGAINST KOSOVO William Kristol and Robert Ka-gan's editorial challenges the GOP to stake out the territory between Pat Buchanan and McGovern Democrats ("Kosovo and the Republican...
...Or the Rambouillet fiasco...
...That should make Kristol and Kagan wonder and question Bill Clinton's real motives for his actions...
...If our real agenda is peace in the Balkans (and not Clinton "legacy building"), then a little ingenuity beats a big stick and a pile of rubble...
...The real challenge to American global leadership—and to the Republican party—is to draw distinctions among the threats we face, "from Baghdad to Beijing to Belgrade...
...As for John McCain, I have to wonder about his motives...
...Could it be that he sees this as an opportunity to pull ahead of George W. Bush in the polls...
...An essential element of leadership is the ability to motivate others to do what they would not do otherwise...
...They seem to forget that their argument is employed by those who want to increase government power while the individual is expected to abandon his own interests without limits to his sacrifice...
...The Yugoslav pain, to which we have contributed, is economic...
...Kosovo got autonomy for three years and after that, by inevitable logic, independence...
...He sees himself as another Winston Churchill or FDR...
...But one can believe that and still oppose direct U.S...
...Beyond the alliterative convenience such a reference offers to clever editorialists, there is little that links these as threats to Western ideals...
...These senators, and many others who opposed the resolution on Kosovo, also supported the expansion of NATO—precisely because they believe that the United States must lead in Europe...
...WILLIAM VAN NEST WAYNE, NJ...
...Now, with the help of Kristol and Kagan, this liberal idea is being applied to our foreign policy...
...He has wistfully spoken about how the presidents who are considered to be "great" have led the country through successful wars...
...NELL WILLIAMS LAFAYETTE, LA What foreign policy do William Kristol and Robert Kagan suggest...
...PAT SHAVER FALLS CHURCH, VA The immoral ends of this treacherous, anti-American administration are bluffs, lies, cover-ups, and death...
...This is the "feel your pain" administration...
...Correspondence AGAINST KOSOVO William Kristol and Robert Ka-gan's editorial challenges the GOP to stake out the territory between Pat Buchanan and McGovern Democrats ("Kosovo and the Republican Future," April 5/April 12...
...William Kristol and Robert Kagan's defense of the Kosovo policy makes me realize my error in not understanding their underlying philosophy sooner...
...For the KLA, who started the terrorist guerrilla conflict, what results from an equitable partition will be theirs...
...It is hard to describe such senators as Paul Coverdell, Pete Domenici, and Pat Roberts as captive to either conservative or liberal isolationists, even if they did vote against a resolution supporting the Clinton administration's ill-considered policy on Kosovo...
...Some deal...
...Some "nation building," properly wrapped, might be graciously received...
...Were the United States truly leading our European allies, the administration would be convincing them that containing Slobodan Milosevic and an expansionist China are priorities for all of us, but that the United States cannot do both...
...PATRICIA P. GREENHOOD LOS ALTOS, CA William Kristol and Robert Ka-gan's support of the Kosovo policy, because they don't want to be indifferent to "human suffering," exposes their inability to think in principles...
...My opposition to this has nothing to do with my feelings for Bill Clinton...
...Only with the policy that we will deploy our military solely to repel threats to the rights of the American people will the United States project its strength as a superpower...
...Clinton lacks the moral authority to lead this country into a quagmire and expend our resources in order to leave whatever kind of legacy he intends to leave...
...Arming the Kosovar Liberation Army (already being supported by an outside country) as our new spectator sport...
...The Republicans who oppose this do so because of our love for America, not our hatred for Bill Clinton...
...American lives should not be entrusted to a draft dodger who loathes the military...
...That is either a vast plateau or a narrow ridge, but in either case it need not be occupied, as they suggest it should be, by Republicans who think the United States is right to engage militarily in the Balkans...
...He has proven to the American people how much he loathes the military by cutting our forces in half and by deploying them more often than any other peacetime president...
...LAWRENCE DI RITA POTOMAC, MD I am livid over William Kristol and Robert Kagan's recent stand on sending ground troops into Kosovo...
...engagement in Kosovo...
...This is at least the start of a deal...
...Yugoslavia got 26,000 troops quartered on its soil waiting to pounce at the first "infraction...
...As the individual must surrender to the welfare state, the nation must surrender to other countries, and allow its own interests to disintegrate...
...For ribbon, guarantee that the part of Kosovo that is their sacred ground will remain Yugoslav...
...The first rule of deal making is that everyone gets something—not everything—they want, but enough to live with...
Vol. 4 • April 1999 • No. 30
