For the first time in my life I am unsure where I stand in an issue of this kind. Perhaps the comfort of distance allows me to be undecided while people like Wolfgang who are so much closer have a signifcantly greater concern.

I am good historian but its an American history view of the world. We see things globaly only in how they affect us as Americans. Too often our notion of the bigger picture is only in how effects us. Our actions in South America support this. We supported puppets and dictators when we should have supported schools and self reliance. Education is as strong a weapon against tranny as you need, whether the tyrants be from the right or the left. We would now have strong, self supporting neighbors.

I have to ask questions that have no good answers perhaps. Is this really only a civil war and we have no business there? Or is this appeasement and Neville Chamberlain all over again.

Viet Nam was easy for me. The small vestige of racism that I know exists with in me said these were Asians and not related to me. Let them fight it out. The peoples in that region had been at war for centuries with no winners, only losers. The Dutch British French and now the US had tried to work their empiracle wills on South East Asia and never even came close. If communism was their choice, fine. What right had we to jam capitalism and American self interest down their throats in the guise of supporting a local tyrant.

Is Cossavo and Serbia any different because there is an outside chance I could be related to these folks? Is an ancient grudge more acceptable because it is held by the British and Irish and less because the Serbs feel a connection to a chunk of land about as big as Kentucky. I truly don't know.

This I do know. You can't conquer and hold a conquered land from the air. This can only be done from the ground by boys who are barely old enough to vote. Boys who maybe shooting hoops on saturday may be asked to shoot people on Monday. Boys who can't legally drink a beer but are told to save the world as we know it.

I have 16 year old twin sons who maybe facing this fight. They are the music in my day and the joy of my life. Could I give them up for a chance to save people I don't know from a war I can't understand.

I don't know.

Don