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From notes@igc.apc.org Wed Aug 2 14:45:47 1995 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.1) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:45:47 -0500 Received: (from notes) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.203 ) id JAA27961 for "conf-zamir.chat"; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:46:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: Ivo Skoric Subject: No Subject Given To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 90 >From majordomo Wed Aug 2 00:44:43 1995 Received: (from majordomo) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.6 ) id AAA18215; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 00:44:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 00:44:42 -0700 Message-Id: <199508020744.AAA18215@igc3.igc.apc.org> To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org From: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Subject: BOUNCE zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org: Non-member submission from [Robert John Bennett ] X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 >From iskoric@igc.apc.org Wed Aug 2 00:44:36 1995 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.6 ) with SMTP id AAA17781 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 00:41:22 -0700 Received: by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de id <55490>; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:40:11 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:35:29 +0200 From: Robert John Bennett Subject: "I Wept for Us." To: President Clinton cc: 131!tim003@dialcom.tymnet.com, 71154.1605@compuserve.com, 74431.3674@compuserve.com, 74774.746@compuserve.com, AmComSaBos@aol.com, Balkaninst@aol.com, BosNet@cu23.crl.aecl.ca, bosnews@doc.ic.ac.uk, fastx@sky-tv.com, GMKURZON@aol.com, haberman@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, IHT@eurokom.ie, jfarrell@christa.unh.edu, mkuhn@christa.unh.edu, NH-PRIMARY@unh.edu, nightly@news.nbc.com, Pressestelle@tu-muenchen.de, realitycheck@cbsnews.com, sage@d31rz0.Stanford.EDU, Vice.President@whitehouse.gov, wobidot@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Mr. President: In a frame of reference not far removed from Bosnia, CNN today broadcast a potent and stirring Focus segment on the recent visit to Rwanda by South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Laureate. In explaining to Hilary Bowker why he broke down in tears at the sight of one of the massacres, he said, "My four grandchildren could very well have been part of this. I could have been. YOU could have been . . . . I wept for US . . . ." I think the Archbishop would agree with another churchman, Pope John Paul, who recently wrote that we have in this century created a "culture of death" unlike anything that has ever existed in human history, because this "culture" has in our time become so much more efficient, organized, and mechanized than in the past. Rwanda was an example of this culture, and Bosnia has been too. One difference, though, is that Rwanda's struggle has been suspended, while Bosnia's goes on. And Bosnia's WILL go on until Serb aggression is stopped, Serb duplicity exposed, and Serb territorial gains reversed - at least partly through a lifting of the arms embargo. You believe, however, that if you lift that embargo against Bosnia, you will be jeopardizing a supposedly tougher UN and Nato policy in the Balkans. The problem is that there is no guarantee that this policy will really be any tougher than any of the putatively tough policies of the past. At any rate, there are many people - here in Germany, at any rate - who doubt that your decision will have any real effect on the war, one way or the other. Since the Moslem nations have decided the embargo is invalid, and will henceforth ignore it, whatever the United States does now about the embargo seems moot, if not irrelevant, as far as hostilities are concerned. To repeat what has already been said, and what you yourself surely know: what is important about your decision on the arms embargo, is not how it will affect the war or UN policy. What is important is how your decision will affect your reputation - and the reputation of the United States - among the masses of people in the Moslem world. Do you really want to go on record among them as the second U.S. president who denied that the Moslems of Bosnia should have the right and the means to defend themselves? Sincerely yours, Robert J. Bennett Munich