Kosovo Crisis
During the late 1970s, we were woefully timid to use military force, as Americans wallowed in post-Vietnam angst. Indeed we were a humiliated superpower; just reminisce over the rampant Soviet advances and our 52 hostages in Iran.
It appears now we are completely indifferent to striking nations hither and yon with “surgical missile strikes.” These Serbian Yugoslav targets will be the fourth country our draft dodger in chief has bombed in the past seven months. This cavalier attitude of bombing nations with vaguely defined objectives is insane. NATO has been turned into an aggressive force for the first time in its history.
Why do we tolerate these Machiavellian distractions in the midst of charges of Clinton averting his gaze from blistering espionage? How the pendulum has swung.
BURNIE THOMPSON
Fullerton
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I was pleased to learn that Bill Clinton has added the word “morality” to his vocabulary (March 25). I am waiting for Slobodan Milosevic to add “brotherly love” to his.
GORDON L. FROEDE
Cheviot Hills
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