-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Claremont Institute Precepts: Kosovo Shows America Needs Missile Defense Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:26:03 -0700 The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS | | June 11, 1999 Visit <http://www.claremont.org> | | No. 173 Russian troops are reported to be on their way to Kosovo, and NATO troops are stationed outside that province waiting to enter. A squabble is reported about whether the Russian troops will be placed under NATO command. The Russians are, of course, partial to the Serbs, and NATO set out to protect the Kosovars, who are mostly driven away from their homes or dead. Division among the "allies" is not the best prescription for an efficient effort. Like the Bosnians before them, Kosovars might think hard before they go home. What success we have won -- and we have apparently won some success -- we have won with air power. This we have done without battlefield casualties. The ability to strike from the air with precision is a key element of American military might, and today dictators around the world are being invited to contemplate what this means for their own plans for mischief. We submit that they have been contemplating it for years. They have a plan. North Korea and Iraq -- to name two nations where evil reigns with impunity -- are preparing missiles and nuclear bombs capable of reaching Europe and the United States. These are not very good missiles, and the bombs are probably not quite ready yet, nor of the best quality. But these countries have the help of larger comrades, notably Russia and China, who are aggrieved over the Serbian war and with American preeminence generally. These bombs and rockets will not likely be very good in the near future. But they do not have to be very good. All they have to do is reach, or even seem to be able to reach, some city in our country. If they can do that, or even if they can perhaps do that, then our strategy, both in Kosovo and in Iraq, is completely neutralized. No longer will we have any assurance that we can wage war from a distance "without casualties." The casualties may not be military, but civilian, and they will not be few, but millions. In that situation the suffering of future Kosovars, or even Kuwaitis, will not seem so urgent to us. There are many lessons to draw from the latest war. None is so clear as the urgent need to protect the American homeland from missile attack. That is the urgent foreign policy issue for the 2000 election. As surely as the rising of the sun, we must build a defense or lose our safety in the near future. We should take a moment, amidst our "victory" celebrations, to make a policy and commit the first resources of the state to its implementation. Sincerely, Larry P. 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