But there were no human losses, unless you count that airman for whom two hours without medical attention proved fatal. On the other hand, at that time the inequality of forces between the dwarf and the monster was significantly offset by the help of the USSR, which provided the anti-aircraft missiles. And here, alas, the parallel between the US wars against Serbia and Vietnam breaks down. Lord Aberdeen played the role if not of the English jester then at least in Italian pantaloons. The Sudeten and Kosovo crises however show that the jester at the helm creating tragedy, is not in the least unusual in our own times.
Ladies are pleased by the aggressive activities of men, on condition that they are kept secret.
Therefore act tactfully and we will not interfere. There you have it. Now a sinister troupe of clowns has returned to the world political stage in the shape of Clinton, Blair and Solana, who, with jesters grimaces, commit unthinkable crimes at the same time that Chernomyrdin and Yavlinski exhort the Serbs to submit to the Germans, because the Russians won't help them. The farce at Rambouillet was played out according to the Munich scenario. In such a case, it would of course have suffered destruction and taken casualties but, possibly, it could have repelled aggression and remained a sovereign nation.