81.   We must fight the ground war to get bin Laden and his hardware.

82.   Vietnam cooled American voters to any notion of long-term ground war with lots of U.S. casualties.

83.   We old-timers will recount for them the era of ground war, when parents had to take kids on vacation and lead over the top.

84.   Western public opinion, it was believed, had no stomach for the sorts of casualties that a ground war would have entailed.

85.   What worries Pentagon planners and the White House is that there are even more variables in a ground war than an air war.

86.   What might a ground war in Kosovo look like?

87.   Which is not to say that a ground war would have been a good idea.

88.   While Britain has pressed for NATO to prepare for a possible ground war, Germany and others have openly opposed the plan.

89.   Yet a ground war, and occupation, are not plausible.

90.   Yet the ground war which offers the best guarantee of NATO securing its five points, looks less likely than ever.