A politico-tactical justification for the strikes

[Carl Remick]

>  So what if NATO high command agreed that an
> invasion was the only solution, but saw no political backing for it?
> Perhaps their reasoning would be as follows: we'll strike and hope he
> folds.  But if he does what we expect -- ejecting Kosovars on 
> a massive
> scale -- that will provide us with the political backing to 
> invade.   ... And it does seem that 
> it is now at
> least possible to get political backing for an invasion that last week
> would have been unthinkable.
> 
> Just an idea.

A very sound idea.  At this point, I would be surprised if NATO ground
troops are *not* used in an offensive.

Carl Remick