Reporter’s Views on Kosovo War

Paul Watson’s incredibly honest, insightful “A Witness to War” (June 20) should be required reading this week in every junior and senior high school in the land. How any American can feel anything other than shame that we have been stained irremediably and indelibly by bombing to death the Kosovo Albanian boy defies rational thought.

“I just wanted him to be alive, to keep breathing long enough to see the end of a war that had made less sense than even his own senseless death,” agonizes Watson.

Here is disclosed the truth about alliance spokesman Jamie Shea, who of course “put the blame (for bombing deaths) on the Serbs.” Shea, whose duplicitous dronings and double-talk “haunted me [Watson] at the strangest times, denying things that I knew to be true, insisting on others that I had seen were false.”

JOHN CARL BROGDON

Culver City

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I must question NATO’s proposal to provide humanitarian assistance to Yugoslavia before Slobodan Milosevic is removed from office. At a minimum, all of his worldly possessions should be seized and sold to offset some of the cost of reconstruction. How quickly we forget all of the atrocities carried out with full approval by Milosevic.

There are no victors in this war. You can rebuild their villages and infrastructure, but you cannot erase the pain and suffering of those who were raped and tortured and the surviving relatives of family members whose remains are buried in mass graves throughout Kosovo. To add insult to injury, NATO conceded to recognize Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.

LARRY GILBERT

Mission Viejo