You know, you know. In a flash, an unconfirmed number of refugees became casualties of war. One refugee told of headless and limbless bodies flung along the roadside like rag dolls. Along with that still-smouldering human debris, which Americans viewed on their television screens at breakfast time, was indeed a child's rag doll. That'll show Milosevic, not to mention the Albanian Kosovars, that NATO means business.
War is many things.
The erring pilot, an American, thought he was bombing a Serbian military target, NATO said. The usual Brussels briefer expressed regrets and reminded everyone that accidents happen. The day previous, a U.S. Air Force officer testily informed a televised news conference that he had flown combat missions over Bosnia and Iraq and, certainly, he could tell a tractor from a tank from the air. So much for smart bombing and bloodless bloodletting. Just wait till troops are on the ground, where of course accidents never happen in war.