Those who feel that we should do nothing for the Kosovars because we didn't do anything for another group damn us to a virulent form of predestination. Under it society would never evolve. The gift of free coice means that because we previously did something wrong or stupid does not mean that we must continue down the same path for eternity.

When my great-great-grandfather's generation finally accepted the need to end slavery in America, there were nay-sayers, primarily the Copperheads, about that terrible war.

The Serbian "innocents" are not unlike the "good Germans" who did not know what the Nazis were doing to the Jews, Gypsies, Poles, etc., in the concentration camps until after the war. But the Serbs have even less of an excuse. They have B-92 and the internet as news sources.

It is extraordinary that a people obsessed with reversing a battle they lost SIX HUNDRED YEARS AGO in Kosovo, don't realize they are creating enmities that may last another 600 years.

That said, I deeply regret that a majority of my fellow citizens twice voted to put Clinton in the White House. His international skills are non-existant. He started an air-campaign with no idea of what to do if it did not succeed. He is belatedly getting first aid to the Kosovar refugees. He has not done anything to accept the any refugees here.