Today's media report news instantaneously and expect it to be made instantaneously as well. In less than two weeks, their verdict on the bombing of Yugoslavia leapt from unfulfilled objectives to failure to impossibility. Since air power hasn't brought the Serbs to their knees in four weeks, the media conclude that it never will. Never mind that under NATO's plan, the bombing will become more severe each week. Vietnam to Kosovo.
Critics constantly compare Kosovo to Vietnam.
Sinner to Sin. Critics on the right argue that because Clinton is untrustworthy, so is the war. Meanwhile, critics on the left argue that because the United States failed to intervene in Rwanda, its intervention in Kosovo is morally suspect and probably racist. C. Hidden Dichotomies 7. Centuries ago, scientific philosophers invented a strict separation between talking about the way the world is and talking about the way it ought to be.