The crisis in Kosovo rages on

I'm all for bombing Yugoslavia. From what I've heard on TV, it seems pretty cut and dried to me. I heard that in January, the Yugoslavian government and the rebels in Kosovo signed a piece agreement. Then recently the Yugoslavian government, which has a larger military anyway, decided to break that agreement and waged their little genocidal war - systematic executions, all sorts of really nasty Nazi Germany stuff. So, I think it's important that NATO try to control that kind of thing.

I think it's kind of ironic that we don't care about this sort of thing when it goes on in Africa. The only reason we care about Yugoslavia is that destabilization in Europe threatens more US investments. At the same time, I still think it's important to try and prevent ethnic cleansing. Whether or not we're in there for the right reasons, hopefully we can slow down this process.

I think that because the leaders appear to be moving toward genocide of some sort, the US should intervene in some way. However, we need to look closely at the effects of our politics and see if they're ending genocide or just speeding up the terrible policy of their leaders.

By and large I agree that the bombing is wrong. In a sense I feel the situation was lose-lose from the very start. NATO had only two totally opposite options. Either leave it alone and watch it worsen as it has for the last ten years, or a full scale war with the defeat of a hostile actor. Either option leaves a lot of bloodshed, which make them both unattractive. I'm disappointed with the U.S.'s half-sincere assault. We start bombings but never carry them through till the end. It will certainly unify the Serbs. Yugoslavia is perhaps well on its way to becoming another Lebanon or South Vietnam.

From what I understand a lot of people are being tortured and the U.S. being the most powerful country in the world has a responsibility to keep the peace. We're looked at as a peacemaker, for right or wrong. I think with the soldiers being taken, the U.S. is going to step up the offensive. The US is in a no-win situation. When the US is involved people don't want us to be, but when we aren't involved people want us to be. In the long run I trust the government.