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current I agree completely with Len's analysis but wonder about tactics. I believe that it would require an earthquake in public opinion to get Canada out of NATO and wonder how to get the majority of Canadians to understand. One thought might be that a campaign for reform and re-orientation (no out-of-area intervention, no pre-emptive defense) would be more likely to get support. When NATO turned that down, their arguments would reveal their true colours. The disturbing facts about public opinion are the number of letters and statements that claim that NATO's action in Yugoslavia were intended to stop expulsions and murders when all facts indicate that it had, and was intended to have, the reverse effect. People are more willing to believe that NATO was unbelievably stupid than that they caused this intentionally. One writer to the Guardian indicated that the fact that the expulsions began after the binding just showed how clever Milosevic is. People obviously do not want to believe that NATO has turned bad and they won't believe what they do not want to believe. How can we change that? Prof. David Lorge Parnas, P.Eng. NSERC/Bell Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering Director of the Software Engineering Programme DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE Faculty of Engineering McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4L7 Telephone: 905 525 9140 Ext. 27353 Telefax: 905 525 6246 email: parnas@qusunt.CAS.McMaster.CA
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