It is the problem. It spreads the violence to a wider area resulting in more atrocities and deaths. Former President Eisenhower wisely warned us about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. We are eager to design, build, display, sell and proliferate deadly weapons all around the world, supposedly in the name of peacekeeping. Some of these weapons find their way back into our own society and onto our own streets.
War is a futile effort to force a quick and easy solution to complex and long-standing problems.
There is no easy way to peace. It takes time and negotiations to build the foundations of cooperation among feuding factions. Conducting a war to enforce peace is no peace at all. Joan K. Bleidorn Shorewood Clinton has suspect policies It seems that President Clinton's policy in Kosovo is to almost fight a war, but not really. It seems that Clinton wants to help the Kosovar Albanian refugees, but not really.