Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes as no surprise that since the bombing our already delicate relations with China have been severely strained. Thousands of protestors have mobbed the U.S. embassy in Beijing; the Chinese have come to regard Milosevic as a hero, President Clinton as a tyrant and NATO as an aggressor...
...NATO has reacted with a forthright apology and expression of "deep regret." This may not placate the Chinese, but given the circumstances, it is the best NATO can do. In times of war, such unintended mishaps are bound to occur. The inevitability of such incidents makes them no less tragic, but it is important not to inflate the significance of such events out of proportion...
...course, while we insist that this whole episode must be taken in stride, we do acknowledge that such episodes would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall. There are critical flaws in our strategy--if we can be said to have...
Perhaps the desire to achieve further damage in Serbia and thus prove the success of the air strikes has prevented NATO from planning its attacks more carefully and thus avoiding disasters of such magnitude. But we don't know why this happened, because NATO has been less than forthright about its strategy and eventual goals...
Meanwhile, more than an apology is owed to the families of the embassy bombing victims. Reparations should be made in order to show that NATO truly feels remorse over its mistaken actions. You can't bomb a friend's building and just walk away saying, "We're sorry." Barbara E. Martinez...