NATO Bombing

Will the madness ever stop? Will NATO ever be held accountable for all of the crimes committed against innocent civilians? I have been repeating to myself the line from your May 6 article, “Sliced in the abdomen, groin and legs by a jagged, grayish-green bomb fragment, she slipped into a coma on the way to the hospital and died two days later.” Another victim of our brilliant bombing campaign.

Maybe we can give [NATO senior military commander] Gen. Wesley K. Clark another star for killing all the civilians he has been so successful at doing. Maybe we can thank our brave congressmen who are so eager to send someone else’s child to fight in this utterly uncalled-for and brutal war.

All we see is controlled video footage of explosions, which the Pentagon says is the destruction of a “military” target. Maybe if the American public were able to see pictures of the young girl who was shredded to pieces by another one of our missiles, then this sickening bombing campaign would be stopped by the flood of calls to the members of our Congress.

NICK BULAICH

Watsonville

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Re “NATO Planes Hit Chinese Embassy in Belgrade,” May 8: OK, we’ve proved yet again that we can bomb the hell out of some little country that is utterly incapable of fighting back. So, quite apart from the sheer immorality and barbarity of blowing apart, incinerating and otherwise mutilating innocent civilians, including women and children, in our zeal to retaliate for their leaders’ rejection of our demands to allow NATO “peacekeeping” troops to overrun and occupy their entire nation, let’s stop this insanity now, before NATO is responsible for starting World War III!

RONALD G. ROWE

Moorpark

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Am I the only one who’s noticed that 10 years ago Chinese students were building replicas of the Statue of Liberty in Tienanmen Square and now they’re attacking the U.S. Embassy with rocks and garbage? Our boundless arrogance and violence--we’ve become Zeus firing thunderbolts from the sky--are creating hatreds around the world that will haunt us for decades.

JONATHAN AURTHUR

Santa Monica

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The 1st Amendment arrives in China, but with a warning label: use only as directed. (Under penalty of being shot by a tank.)

RICHARD J. STALL JR.

Los Angeles

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For the life of me, I don’t know why we would want to be part of the peacekeeping force that someday will occupy Kosovo. We will be despised by many and our soldiers will fall victim to the same guerrilla tactics employed against us in Vietnam. Better to let the Russians or the U.N. handle it.

IAN BOARD

Brea

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Regarding the Kosovar refugees and their eventual return home: Why would they want to go home? We’ve wrecked their country.

STEVE PIRTLE

Whittier

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To this voter, NATO’s unprovoked and illegal attack on Yugoslavia is a litmus test for the 2000 presidential election. Though I may compromise on other issues, I will support no candidate who supports this wrongful war.

WILLARD SMITH

Fullerton