Serbian Crisis

Through news reports, I have heard Serbian nationals and their American relatives protest the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia. Their complaint is that violence is being unfairly visited upon innocent civilians in their homes. Funny, but I never hear these people mention, or even acknowledge, the actual violence and death that has already happened and continues to happen to thousands of ethnic Albanian civilians at the command of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. The protests of these people ring hollow to me.

BOB LOZA

Burbank

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The combination of a U.S. president with no military background and the token title of commander and chief sound like an oxymoron to me. If only he had gotten his ego out of the way and heeded the advice of the experts.

The United States should avoid protracted conflicts; it should intervene overseas only when the objective is clear and when it can bring to bear such massive superiority that a swift victory is virtually certain.

SCOTT AGUILAR

Whittier

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Re Kosovo: Having watched President Clinton detail his plans to build a “bridge to the 21st century,” I do not recall him mentioning that we had to bomb the old “bridge to the 20th century.”

TOM FERCH

Irvine

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The Clinton legacy: World War III.

MARTHA HARTLEY

Arcadia