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Show AA8 The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION _Sunday, June 6, 1999 What Would Debate on NATO’s Purpose Conclude Today? BY DONALD SHARPES Whether or not there should be a North Atlant zation, and whether n ica shouldjoin it if ¢ ablis fied was my high school debate topic North Vietnam demoralized by Rolling Thunder. the CCU! in rcountry, and again in this cen in Europe. even bombing of its cities despite the emerging oppositionto i bombing mustbe a prelude to the liberation ofterritory.andassoon \.7(Q's composition. And, ye: 1993 because of Bosnia, thefirst Sn eeeeasnelamar initial Serbian joy at what Milos: Muslims from Kosovo? The an- at the tip of the Adriatic Sea As Winston Churchill noted in a refugees to return to their ruined villages with traumatized speech in Fulton, Mo.. an iron curtain had descended on all the old capitals of Europe. which memories. The Serbs, initially jubilant when NATO bombs started fall needed to protect themselve April 1948. Recently. a collective ar ing ill. ovic did in expelling the ethnic n tinged with naswer is rel tionalism. Christian Serbs were defeated by the OttomanTurks in the first battle of Kosovo in 1389, ushering in 500-plus years of bit like Germany after ter Serbian resistance to any Is. World War II, have to face themyes in the mirror and ask why they allowed ethnic cleansing to lami culture For six centuries prior to that battlein 1389, the patriarchate of ust has —< descended over NATO’S p moral imperatives. integrity s. Yet only the milit arget has changed, not the objec ves. After a halbcentury of mill tary exeralses aguins a jotential soeOreaLere siveness and American hesitancy eenie ea nce the Nuremberg WarCrimes Tribunal. when international le ‘O should have acted militar custody in The Hague with active levels to prevent o : :futureridicule f trials. anda further80, including Milosovic, have indictments issued against them andwill be des, by illegal immigrationfrom Albania and by Muslimfecundity. Nevertheless, the Serbs’ silent glee and nationalistic participa- tried when captured tion in this ethnic murder in Kos Vo Will result inacollectiveguilt they cannot escape. nor simply If thedebatetopic werestill the sametoday about NATO as it was in 1949, what would be the Reg. $69.95 Donald K. 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NATO's action is the first in the 20th cen. tury against genocide. so repug: citizens teries in Kosovo; a few were con- d$ C wireless wants your usedcell phone. Any make. Any Model Russian invasion, NATO is expe: tant than state rights. Giways be an integral part o Tribunal for Yugoslavia was set verted into mosques over the cleansethe against further Soviet territorial incursions, like the blockade of Berlin begun the vear earlier. in TheInternational War Crimes are housed in the Serbian monas- troops can allow the remaining bian army fromthe hills of Kosovo, pi cekeeping great storehouses of Byzantineart still need NATO, despite the in credible bungling of bombin: sites. Yes, the United States mus What was the reason for the territoryfromthe Baltic to Tr in 1949. 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