It was on Serb TV, not American TV, that Americans first saw proof of the capture of the three American soldiers, the downing of the F117 stealth bomber, the bombed refugee convoy, civilian apartment houses, schools, monasteries and the evacuation of mothers and babies from a hospital next door to a government building hit with missiles, NATO was clearly losing the propaganda war - not for the hearts of the Serbs but for the hearts of the AMERICANS. ....
While the American public has sort of put out of their minds the bombs that dropped on schools, hospitals, TV stations, electrical power plants, and other civilian targets during the 79 days of bombing Yugoslavia, the Serbs vividly remember and are living with the results. In the past few months a number of top elected officials have been assassinated - some of them, it is reported, by bounty hunters being paid by NATO.
During the bombing war against Yugoslavia, the rate of civilian casualties was quite high. The civilian infrastructure was the primary target of the protracted bombing campaign. Yugoslavia had no weapons of mass destruction, had not attacked America, and posed no threat to any other nation on earth.
There were no protests from the left, no press criticism to speak of, no talk of a quagmire, no international outcry. Essentially, we saved a people who now produce terrorists to wage jihad against us.
On the other hand, we were innundated with graphic pictures of "civilian casualties" in Afghanistan and Iraq, eventhough we have been much more careful to avoid them than we were in Yugoslavia. The street protests and media criticisms of our defensive actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are simply vehicles to attack a Republican administration. Nothing more, and nothing less.
Never could figure out if china and bubba conspired to bring down the building. The excuses were particularly lame at the time.