NATO’s Bombing of Serbia

* It is really ironic reading all those letters and commentaries from Serbs and Serbia sympathizers expressing their profound shock and anger against NATO’s unintentional bombing of civilians. There was never a peep out of them condemning their fellow Serbs when they deliberately killed more than 300,000 innocent civilians during their four years of aggression in Croatia and Bosnia. How they carry on about the funeral of one Serb soldier, while hundreds of young and old Kosovo male Albanian civilians are being murdered!

During all of its aggression Serbia was never touched, never knew what devastation felt like until now.

HILDA M. FOLEY

Santa Ana

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* To call the war in Yugoslavia NATO’s war is a misnomer. It is Bill Clinton’s war. He started it and he is running it, hoping thereby to resuscitate his shattered reputation.

Clinton is not interested in negotiation. He demands total capitulation. Clinton’s arrogance is incredible.

MARY FRIEDMAN

Los Angeles

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* Once the bombing has stopped and the dust has settled, I wonder if NATO will blame the Serbs for the 2,000 deaths and countless thousands of injuries to Serbian citizens, the destruction or severe damage to in excess of 200 schools (most of them elementary level) and additional destruction of hospitals, churches, monasteries, cemeteries, factories, civilian public and privately owned structures and businesses, roads, bridges and airports. Since our tax dollars have been paying for the destruction of these things, will they also pay for the rebuilding of them?

DEBORAH TOMASI

Venice

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* If the demonstrators at the Federal Building who protest the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy would only look across the street at the veterans cemetery, they would see thousands of graves of American servicemen who fought a war in the Pacific in World War II, so that the demonstrators might be free to come to the United States. Many young Americans, if they had survived, would be as upset as I am to think that their sacrifice is not appreciated.

JOHN R. MEIS

Alhambra

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* Re “Questionable intelligence,” by Michael Ramirez, cartoon, May 12: Surely Slobodan Milosevic has an opening in his organization for a bright young cartoonist with the leanings of Ramirez. Or at least he could help Ramirez find an opening in a Belgrade paper. I would like to remind Ramirez of Hitler’s supporters in Congress and the Republican Party prior to World War II, as I realize he is too young to recall the period.

FRANK WOOLAM

Tarzana