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In article <12AUG199221570952@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
> Still not much has been published in the way of pictures
> of the alleged destruction of Sarajevo. There are two possible
> reasons for this:
> 
> 1. There is no destruction, after all; to some degree or other,
>    it's a hoax.
> 
> 2. There is destruction, but the media are waiting to release
>    pictures to coincide with some event in the offing.

	You forgot 3) Your just not looking hard enough, or you are unwilling
to accept evidence you do see.

	I see pics of Sarajevo every night on the news.  They've been in the
paper often.  Today's paper carrier the headline:

	SERBS ROUT THOUSANDS: UN decires eviction of Muslims

> Those familiar with my other postings will know that I've
> favored (1), but it's worth considering (2) in the light of all
> the talk about the expected UN resolution to use force to
> protect their relief effort. The deployment of troops, including
> Americans, to carry out this resolution could be the event for
> which they're waiting. In either case, such news management
> would be easy to bring off because the public, not able to
> imagine who could benefit from the ploy, would never recognize
> that it was happening. 

	Reaching a bit, aren't we?

	There's no reason it even has to be the US that goes in.

> Speaking of American troops, I read that a general told
> Congress yesterday that 
> 
>   "...it may be one of the prerequisites for that 
>   happening successfully [i.e. deployment of troops]
>   is to build a permissive environment [in Bosnia] through
>   political and diplomatic action."
> 
> I can just hear him at his =next= meeting with Congress,
> when it's demanded of him that he explain what he was
> talking about: "Senator, I meant to say that we cannot
> risk the use of FORCE until PEACE comes to the area!

	He meant that he cannot insert troops until a zone of safety appears. 
Inserting troops into a hostile environment gets them killed very quickly.

Brett                                                      
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