Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton's initial promise to avoid using ground troops suggested that the U.S. was timid about fighting. Clinton's decision to bomb and only bomb reads like a compulsion to do something but a reluctance to do anything final. Bombing seems to be activity for the sake of activity--it lacks the assertiveness and conviction of ground warfare...
...meantime, our bombs have already killed a number of Serbian civilians. Just last week a NATO bomb fell short of its target, destroying two residential areas. Though NATO officials have labeled it an "accident of war," the fact remains that at least seven people were reported killed and nearly 50 wounded. Despite our idealism, the reality is that this war's dire consequences have affected the innocent, both Serbian and Albanian...
...NATO cannot continue to harbor delusions about a war without casualties. If they choose to bomb a country they can't embrace bombing but shun ground warfare. If the U.S. is to fight it must immerse itself in warfare. Since it made the ominous step into battle, it must fight with the convictions and realism of a real...
While Milosevic moved fast to stay ahead of the impact of the air strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...
...turned the project into a black hole of costs: the $1 billion price tag eventually got to $19 billion. Even so, the plant will operate at barely 40% of capacity until state regulators grant certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director of the Environmental Evaluation Group, a watchdog organization. The debris, mostly plutonium-tainted clothing, tools and sludge, will be lowered a distance equal to the height of two World Trade Centers into a rock tomb hollowed from a salt formation. Gradually the walls will collapse, burying...