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ALTHOUGH I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PACIfist, I feel that President Clinton is right. He had no choice but to send troops to help end the massacre in Bosnia. If the U.S. had taken steps against Hitler in the late 1930s, perhaps the lives of millions of innocent people might have been saved. Cruel dictators must be stopped before they damage the world. We must learn that all people have to live in peace with one another. HANNA CASSEL Napa, California...
Liberal confusion is particularly evident in foreign policy. While conservatives are often willing to use force in an immoral, unprincipled manner, liberals are often too pacifist or too skittish to use military force at all. For example, the Clinton administration vacillated on Bosnia and issued dozens of empty threats and ultimatums. Liberals must realize that force should be used generously for moral purposes...
...RUSSIA'S PACIFIST ATTITUDE TOWARD Bosnia is ironic [COVER STORIES, Sept. 11]. Nine months ago, President Boris Yeltsin mutilated the city of Grozny and reduced it to rubble with artillery, ground troops and air strikes. In fact, Russian leaders repudiated any proposals for negotiations by the Chechen side and dismissed reports of human-rights violations and appalling atrocities committed by Russian troops. Now, when circumstances call for genuine action in the Balkans, Russia wants to deter any progress and is calling for peace talks despite massive evidence of the Bosnian Serbs' failure to keep their promises. NITIN UMAPATHI Bangalore, India...
...suffered in silence," observes the voice of Judge, "the authorities left us alone. But that silent suffering shit was about to end." Crammed into a holding cell, an informal rap session about how to defend Black rights lets the various voices in the community be heard: the pacifist preacher, the young hotheads and derisive random riffraff (played by screenwriter Melvin Van Peebles, the director's father). Above it all rises the calm authority of Huey Newton and his persuasive argument for Black self-defense...
...lifelong pacifist, David Dellinger survives on grant money and lecturing fees, and lives in a house off a dirt road in rural Vermont...