Clinton's happy use of remotely controlled flying bombs to hit things such as a TV station, designating it as a legitimate target because, in his view, it was spreading pro-Serb propaganda in Serbia caused us to lose much of our moral high ground when confronted with terrorists - try to explain them why we call them terrorists and we call ourselves 'good guys'. (Incidentally, this was exactly the logic McVeigh used to justify his target during his own 'war' on the U.S. gov't.)
The various congressmen, senators and other cheerleaders hailing our hitting the TV station and other civilian targets in Serbia projected a rather 'evil' face of Uncle Sam to the world. I can still remember Sen. McConnell happy but disgusting comments on how we would hit the Serbs' electrical, fuel distribution and water networks and cause them to wake up in the morning dark, cold, hungry with no TV.
As for the 'what if' question, there is no question that the other 'governments' would have supported us more if our gov't aparatchicks were hit instead of ordinary people. They really hate to see 'the officials' hurt.
WARNING:
It is dangerous to be right,
when your Government is wrong!