The images are desperately familiar. So is the West's fudge and fiddle. Old women in black winding their way through mountainous terrain. Smoke billowing out of a single house lost in the wilderness. Kosovo is burning.
Western leaders are furious.
They begin their usual waltz through each others' capitals. The sound bites are right. NATO is working out plans. The US version Hollywood loves a foreign star, from Hong Kong's Jackie Chan to France's Jean Reno, but Japanese fans reckon Godzilla , who returns to their screens this weekend, has lost a lot in the translation.