[Alberta's Child]

I'll give one very good, understandable reason why "they hate America."

Former president Bill Clinton orders the United States military to rain destruction down on civilians in Serbia for two months to deal with nonexistent "ethnic cleansing," and people in the U.S. didn't even miss their favorite fast food and television sitcoms.

A bunch of hijackers cause one day's worth of destruction on civilians in the U.S., and suddenly it's an "act of war" the likes of which the world has not seen since Pearl Harbor.

I am in full support of the U.S. in this conflict, but this is something worth thinking about.

[Texasforever]

I think the civilian casualties in Kosovo was about 2,000 due to bombing. I did not agree with that operation but it was an obligation under our treaty with NATO. But the fact remains, the death toll is fast approaching 7,000. I guess to some it was a "debt payment" of some sort and that is not acceptable.

[Dr. Frank fan]

I agree that clinton's actions need to be brought up more often. Funny how almost every single left-wing self-appointed genius commentator, in trying to explain why we are "hated", always mentions irrelevant crap like the Kyoto protocol, or Bush intending on pulling out of an ABM treaty with a nation which no longer exists. To leftists, it is stuff like this - fodder for left-wing coffee house talk - which really drives terrorists. Uh, yeah, whatever. (I guess the next explanation will be that terrorists training in Afghani highlands are seething at the US for not putting Social Security in a "lockbox"?)

But somehow they never, ever, ever bring up clinton and his "war", uh, "strategies" of bombing civilian targets from 15 thousand feet, like TV stations, aspirin factories, etc.

The closest they come is usually to wave their hands vaguely and mention that "America drops bombs" on such-and-such places. They might even specifically refer to Iraq, aspirin factories in Sudan, even Serbia.

Yet they never mention by name the mastermind of the attacks: Bill Clinton. Instead, it is deemed to be "America" which planned and carried out those wag-the-dog distractions, and so "America" is at fault (and, implicitly, on some level, "deserves what it got" - even though few of these jerks have the guts to come out and say that this is what they really think).

All this so they can continue to avoid criticism of their boy hero clinton.

I wonder why none of the left-wing "why they hate America" opinion columns even mention Clinton's name? Gee, I wonder.

All that having been said, one must admit that this did not start with Clinton and his civilian bombing tactics. Even without him they, and many others, would still "hate" America.

[Texasforever]

I think the civilian casualties in Kosovo was about 2,000 due to bombing. I did not agree with that operation but it was an obligation under our treaty with NATO. But the fact remains, the death toll is fast approaching 7,000. I guess to some it was a "debt payment" of some sort and that is not acceptable.

[Texasforever]

I was wrong the Kosovo civilian casualties were far lower than I stated

NEW FIGURES ON CIVILIAN DEATHS IN KOSOVO WAR

(Washington, February 7, 2000) -- About five hundred civilians died in ninety separate incidents as a result of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia last year, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.