The Clinton administration has been actively working with Nato during its air strikes against Yugoslavia in order to try to stop the Serbs from further killings of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
The allies also hope to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic back to the negotiating table where they want him to give permission for a Nato peacekeeping force to stay in Kosovo as long as it is needed.
However, it seems to me that most ordinary citizens of Yugoslavia think that the bombing is doing more harm than good.
Because of what is happening, an increasing number of Yugoslavians, including those who did not like Mr Milosevic in the past, are tending to support him in his fight against foreign military intervention in their own country's internal racial affairs. There is a rising tide of patriotic passion as Serbians seek to defend their territorial integrity.
Consequently, Mr Milosevic is consolidating his power base.
There are now hundreds of thousands of refugees, and I am sure neither the US nor Nato anticipated the scale of the humanitarian problem before they started their bombing campaign.
How do we get enough shelter, food and medicine to such huge numbers of refugees in the shortest time possible? These are problems that must be solved as quickly as possible.
