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...current debate regarding whether or not to support a return to campus of ROTC (News, April 5), please allow me to add further considerations...
...Whether one likes it or not, military service remains in this country a major conduit to power. For a great university to absent itself from injecting into the mix its own ideas and values is a gross neglect of duty and is a disservice to the nation...
However, the refugee slowdown is an ominous rather than positive development. Last week, the Yogoslav Army sealed the border to prevent refugees from escaping, although it has since reopened for brief intervals. It is impossible to know where the several hundred thousand "internally displaced" Kosovars are, or whether they have adequate food or shelter. There are no reliable sources of information on the ground within Kosovo, but refugees tell of a meticulous and organized refugees tell of a meticulous and organized effort to empty cities, towns and villages...
From the position of an armchair general, it is difficult to know whether an air war is enough; however, it would be wise to maintain the use of ground troops as an option. Doing otherwise would send the signal that the U.S. is prepared to punish genocide only when the perpetrators are easy targets for bombardment...
...question now is not whether NATO should have taken an interest in the Balkans in the first place, or whether idealism is superior to realpolitik; the question is how to avoid the genocide of the Kosovar Albanians, and whether NATO is willing to take the necessary steps to that...