[Javeth]

How was that an “upside” dumbass? Bill Clinton, in hitting the Chinese Embassy (whether deliberate or not) attacked the sovereign territory of a foreign nation (the second one in the conflict, alongside Serbia itself). He pissed off the world and made the USA look arrogant, or foolish and incompetent (or both).

It also gave Bill Clinton even more opportunity to wag the dog, on top of the initial bombing campaign itself. (It began coincident with the Juanita Broderick allegations, and in the wake of the impeachment humiliation, while the Embassy bombing occurred in concert with accusations against Bill Clinton’s China policy.)

As we saw from Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s humiliating failure and public evisceration in the 2008 Presidential campaign, they’re political opportunists who’ll stop at nothing in the service of their own power.

It’s difficult to know whether or not the 1999 Embassy bombing was deliberate, but it undoubtedly helped Clinton’s political plans, intentional or not, and was at best an idiotic attack on another sovereign nation. If you’re truly stupid enough to defend a Clintonian f**k-up on that scale, then perhaps you should put out a special request for Monica Lewinsky’s kneepads.

[Brad from Tennessee]

You read a lot into a one-sentence statement by somebody you don't know. Bill Clinton and the UN used one-sided or bogus numbers to whip up the world news media against the Serbs and justify the NATO bombing campaign. Clinton believed he could take full credit for a “positive” outcome in Yugoslavia that would help balance out his retreat from Somalia. (Clinton's inept Defense Secretary Les Aspin had stripped assets from U.S. forces in Mogadishu leading to “Blackhawk Down.”) But the blame for a bad outcome in Yugoslavia could be pinned on NATO. I don't know if the bombing of the Chinese embassy was premeditated. NATO’s behavior was so ruthless in Serbia a lot of people were led to believe the embassy bombing was intentional. Personally I don't care that the Chinese embassy got bombed or who got upset about it. It probably helped end the bombing. Chinese advisors were with Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge while they killed 2 million people. The Chinese continue to rape Tibet. The PRC is expansionist, anti-democratic and anti-Christian. Maybe that will change before we are in a major war with them.

When Reagan bombed Libya in 1986 France, Switzerland and Romania said their embassies in Tripoli were damaged. That doesn't make it right but it is a consequence of war.

Calling people names like “dumbass” and accusing them of taking political positions when you don't have any proof is childish.