It is a matter worth discussion whether or not the United States is going to accomplish its short-term goals by military intervention in Kosovo, but there’s no doubt about the situation on a longtime scale: After intervention, it would turn to disaster.
Air raids on Yugoslavia would make an entire generation of Serbs consider the U.S. and its Western allies enemies.
In the same fashion, Germans are still considered to be enemies by the elderly in the region–it took 50 years and two generations to mend the bitter memories of World War II.
In such circumstances every action of the U.S. would be considered to be against Serbian interest, and it would be a matter of patriotism to oppose it, regardless of its content.
You may not like Serbs personally, but they are an important factor in southeast Europe, and an integral part of it.
The situation following air strikes would throw Yugoslavia back into the age of early Cold War, and very much obstruct progress of the entire region.
It deserves thinking if fulfillment of the questionable aims of the United States in the Balkans would be worth this sacrifice.
