The US Senate is now debating a measure to authorize ground troops - even though the President has not called for them and has insisted all along they won't be used. Makes me wonder if he was so anti-war when he was in school that he refused to even study military history. The only time air power alone was decisive in a war was when we (the US) dropped the big ones on Japan. I certainly hope that things won't get that bad. But I have a hard time seeing the Russians restraining themselves from supporting the Serbs militarily if we escalate much further than we are now. And I have a hard time seeing us making the situation any better for the Kosovar Albanians without escalation.

As if the Kosovo crisis weren't bad enough, the shootings in Salt Lake City, Utah last week and the tragic massacre in Littleton, Colorado yesterday have certainly rattled a lot of people in my part of the world.

I'm going to post a song in a new thread. It's titled "We're Up Against It Now" and although the main subject of the song is a much different type of crisis, the first verse and chorus are still very relevant today.