Look Ron, there is a good reason why the Geneva Convention does exist.
It exists because Nations have recognized that some basic moral rules are necessary when countries are at war.
When soldiers break those rules, this entitles me, and you, to make a moral judgment about those who are responsible for breaking these basic rules.
That the Serbs are guilty of atrocities and ethnic cleansing, there can be no doubt about. But the fact that Serbs are guilty of those atrocities does not give NATO's commanders the right to disregard and break those rules.
The bombing of RTS (especially when CNN was told by NATO to get out the night before) was not acceptable. Likewise, the policy of hurting civilians to pressure Milosevic, as admitted by Short, is not acceptable either.
I am no pacifist Ron, but the continuation of this failure of a war has become an aberration :a moral and humanitarian war which produced a human disaster, being fought with morally dubious means, and led by a bunch of con artists who pretend to be statesmen by refusing to admit to their mistakes.
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