Some people are saying that the NATO bombings in Serbia are to blame for the increased severity of Serbia's elimination of the Kosovar Albanians. It is probably true that the Serbian forces could have proceeded a bit more slowly and methodically if we had not taken action. But to suggest that our military actions are the cause of the butchery is a gross distortion of logic. Peaceful negotiations had already been tried. Great numbers of people were being killed.
Pacifism only works when the tiger is still in the cage.
The tiger is in the field. I do not think we would have had any reason to be proud of a failure to act. Some of our leaders' statements bother me. It seems that our government believes it has to apologize to us if one of our military people is captured, killed, or wounded. We need to be both reasonable and objective.