Mike Levin: “Mr. President, while I favor the thrust of the resolution before us, I do not favor its timing, and I will vote to…”

“Mr. President, while I favor the thrust of the resolution before us, I do not favor its timing, and I will vote to table. I want to just take a few moments this evening to explain this. The stakes are tremendously high in Kosovo. We simply must not fail. We cannot fail to succeed in Kosovo. NATO must not fail to succeed in Kosovo. Even before I visited the refugee camps a week or so ago, I felt strongly about this. But meeting with the refugees, of course, reinforces my conclusion about the nature of Mr. Milosevic's ethnic cleansing. This century of ours began with a genocide against Armenians; it is ending with an ethnic cleansing against the Kosovars; and there was a holocaust in between.”