Who is being targeted by the NATO bombs?
“Isn’t it time we stopped using the word ”accidental” to describe the NATO bombing of Yugoslavian hospitals, residential neighborhoods, buses, trains, trucks, and refugees on roads that has killed or maimed at least 1,000 civilians, including children?…. An accident implies something unforeseen. True, a recent bombing – to take an example of the hospital bombed in Belgrade – may have been unforeseen as a specific consequence of bombing the city. But it was foreseeable, given the magnitude and nature of the bombing, that some hospital, school, village, or bus would at some point be hit, and civilians would die. If I drive my car at 80 miles an hour down a street crowded with children, and 10 of them are killed, I cannot dismiss this as an accident, even if I had not intended to kill these particular children. When an action has inevitable and terrible consequences, it cannot be excused as ”accidental.” ….. When Serbian troops in Kosovo kill Albanians, the proper word is ”delibe
