“In Kosovo we achieved our strategic goals in 78 days with only 4 American casualties.”
The part that I didn’t like was bombing the crap out of civilians there because we couldn’t safely fly low enough to hit military targets with any effectiveness.
But I guess since Europe and NATO supported the above and control the courts that determine war crimes, it would never be considered war crimes. Kind of nice to be running those institutions, though!
“The part that I didn’t like was bombing the crap out of civilians there because we couldn’t safely fly low enough to hit military targets with any effectiveness.”
True, but hasn’t one of the main criticisms for every war since Vietnam been that our rules of engagement are too limited to achieve victory?
We need to realize that if we are going to use the military to enforce our aims that people are going to die. Including innocents. Pretending otherwise is a fiction that leads to long drawn out wars that are more costly.
The part that I didn’t like was bombing the crap out of civilians there because we couldn’t safely fly low enough to hit military targets with any effectiveness.
Donald Bellissario made this point in six or seven episodes of JAG. In 1999 his show runner even had a character predict a terrorist attack on US by bin Laden.