re american jewish congress open letter to clinton in article c vbtk f blaze cs jhu edu arromdee jyusenkyou cs jhu edu ken arromdee writes in article apr vxcrna cern ch casper vxcrna cern ch casper davi ppe writes are you aware that there is an arms embargo on all of what is was yugoslavia including bosnia which guarantees massive military superiority of serbian forces and does not allow the bosnians to try to defend themselves should we sell weapons to all sides or just the losing one then ending an embargo does not we must sell anything at all right we ll probably end up giving them weapons if the europeans want to sell weapons to one or both sides they are welcome as far as i m concerned you seem to oppose ending the embargo you know it is difficult for europeans to sell weapons when there is an embargo in place during wwii the british managed to supply arms to the yugoslavs despite german occupation if the europeans had the will to do anything besides sponsoring peace conferences they would have no problem putting any kind of weapon they wanted into bosnia i guess i would favor ending the embargo if the congress would pass a law forbidding export of us military supplies to yugoslavia including via third parties until then the risks of the us being drawn into a more active role would be too great i do not see the arms embargo as a major factor in the outcome of the war i do not automatically accept the argument that bosnia is any worse than other recent civil wars say vietnam for instance the difference is it is happening to white people inside europe with lots of tv coverage but if this was the reason and if furthermore both sides are equal wouldn t all us racist americans be favoring the good christians serbs instead of the non christians we really seem to favor both sides are certainly not equal in the eyes of the press and that s about all we have to go on isn t it and i wish you d quit hurling words like racist around there are many levels at which people react to what they see at the most fundamental level you do not have to consciously recognize the racial element you simply tend to empathize more with people who are like yourself as far preferring christian over moslem i am an atheist myself and i think you ll agree that in the us the majority of people do not typically discriminate on the basis of religion nor give it a particularly important place in their world view dave
