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Your editorial on NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade (Editorial, May 10) flippantly insists "that this whole episode must be taken into stride" while conceding that "such events would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall." I beg to differ--the failure on the part of the CIA to distinguish between the address of a suspected Yugoslavian arms agency and the Chinese embassy down the street would be more palatable if we had more confidence in the CIA's intelligence...
What is required as a direct result of such blunders is not simply a review of NATO's strategy in the Balkans but a full and public disclosure of the "extensive process" by which the CIA's information is checked. Until the public of this supposed democracy has access to statistics and hard facts detailing the CIA's intelligence gathering mechanisms and the process by which they are put to use by government officials it is hard to have confidence in the claim that mistakes of this magnitude won't happen again. SAADI SOUDAVAR...
Your editorial on NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade (Editorial, May 10) flippantly insists "that this whole episode must be taken into stride" while conceding that "such events would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall." I beg to differ--the failure on the part of the CIA to distinguish between the address of a suspected Yugoslavian arms agency and the Chinese embassy down the street would be more palatable if we had more confidence in the CIA's intelligence...
...Serbian leader, adding, "Champions have to play through their pain. You have to see the power of a diplomatic bridge, not a bloody war." He insists that he stressed that Milosevic must withdraw his forces from Kosovo and agree to an international peacekeeping force and repatriation of refugees, as NATO demands...
Jackson vehemently denies that he is blinded by the glib moral equalizing that afflicts some NATO critics, who seem to think that NATO and Milosevic are equally responsible for the carnage in the Balkans. But at times he seems to be trying to have it both ways. On the CNN show Crossfire, he maintained that NATO's bombing campaign "corresponds with the kind of ethnic-cleansing violence you see in Kosovo." But two days later he told me that he thinks NATO's bombing has served "our moral mission of stopping the ethnic cleansing." He adds...