What would YOU have done in his shoes, Carol?   He'd seen (in Ruwanda, where he'd supported Madelaine Albright's desire for military intervention) what inaction in the face of genocide meant -- and was determined never to let it happen again -- but though he pushed for the option of ground troops (which would have saved many more civilian lives) and lower flying Apache helecopters (ditto), he could only get the Pentagon to agree to the kind of bombing that IS very destructive of human life. So now he's getting brickbats from both sides: the generals who never wanted a "humanitarian war" and the humanitarians who are aghast at the only war he was permitted even to threaten...
So, I repeat, what would you have DONE?   ("Nothing" is what we "did" in Ruwanda)