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Jack Kingston: “In the real world situation, we all agree that we need to kill a fly with a sledge hammer, because that is the way to…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 1994
In the real world situation, we all agree that we need to kill a fly with a sledge hammer, because that is the way to save the most lives and not have the highest casualties. You are saying we have a potential problem in Korea with the North Korean build up. Then we have Bosnia. We do not know what the Serbs are going to do. Last week they backed off. Let us hope that they are willing to sit down and negotiate. But you have those two hot spots right now. Then you have the Middle East. So what would happen if all three of these areas erupted?
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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The speaker discusses global tensions in Korea, Bosnia, and the Middle East.

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