THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT "SURGICAL" STRIKES

remind them of our colossal fuck-up during the Balkans Intervention:

Chinese Embassy Bombing: A Wide Net of Blame
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: April 17, 2000
NY Times

The bombing resulted from error piled upon incompetence piled upon bad judgment in a variety of places -- from a frantic rush to approve targets to questionable reliance on inexpert officers to an inexplicable failure to consult the people who might have averted disaster, according to the officials.

In retrospect, they said, the bombing, if not intended, could have been avoided at several points along the way.

Last week, 11 months after the fact, the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, dismissed a midlevel officer who put the X on what turned out to be the embassy. He also disciplined six other employees, saying that agency officers ''at all levels of responsibility'' contributed to the bombing.