Jeff Duncan: “several times over the last few days I have heard reports on national networks saying that Members of Congress were…”

“several times over the last few days I have heard reports on national networks saying that Members of Congress were getting ``antsy'' about not committing ground troops to Kosovo. The implication is that all of the Members of Congress want ground troops in there immediately. I believe it was a terrible mistake to start bombing in the first place, and it certainly would be compounding a huge error to place many thousands of ground troops in there now. As many columnists have pointed out, the NATO bombings have made this situation much worse than it ever would have been if we had simply stayed out. The very liberal Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen, wrote, ``I believe, though, that the NATO bombings have escalated and accelerated the process. For some Kosovars, NATO has made things worse.'' Pat M. Holt, a foreign affairs expert writing in the Christian Science Monitor, wrote, ``The first few days of bombing have led to more atrocities and to more refugees.…”