Milosevic

Your Feb. 3 editorial, “Time’s Up for Milosevic,� is biased. Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic is not to blame half as much as America and Western Europe are for the crisis in Kosovo. America has continually supported the Albanians in Kosovo in their bid for independence. You seem to forget that it was former President George Bush who openly stated that he would bomb Serbia if Kosovo was not given independence. That was a decade ago. Support from America is what ignited the independence movement in Kosovo.

Actions such as the training and arming of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army by the German army are the fuel that keeps the crisis burning. The actions of Milosevic, while they may appear harsh, are merely a response to the radicalization of the Kosovo Albanians, which was instigated by American and Western European support.

Milosevic has a right to defend his country and people. NATO has no right to interfere in the politics of a sovereign state. NATO should realize that the policies and actions of its member nations are at the root of the Kosovo crisis and the majority of the world’s problems.

TOMAS JOVANOVIC

Westwood

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It appears that Kosovo will be another Vietnam. President Clinton is poised to send troops there. Isn’t it ironic that he did everything possible to avoid going to Vietnam himself. He even went to a foreign country and protested against his country. But he has no qualms in sending someone else to do what he would not do. He is an amazing person.

AUBREY PILGRIM

Long Beach