.....maybe not one U.S. soldier's blood. U.S. soldiers might be too busy playing pool billiard and watch, feet at the ceiling, some basketball finals in their quarters....

If not America's, Kosovo is certainly worth the blood of some other nation's honorable young men and women in uniform who are distraught as I am witnessing the same carnage to happen all over again in Kosovo as a few years ago in Bosnia.

I understand Kosovo is not on the average American's radar screen. But explain to me, how come that, on one hand, America is so busy and absorbed in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive by erecting memorials, creating movies such as "Schindler's List" that softened millions of your fellow Americans up enough to shed a tear or two, making the Nazi genocide a literary evergreen, and bully other countries into paying up for misbehavior that occurred 50 years ago while you recoil in outrage and write acidic comments against a more committed and forceful involvement when you have an opportunity to demonstrate what liberty, freedom, and humanity mean to you and your country? Shame on you!

I am German and I am sure I don't have to review with you the history of my people. My mother was pregnant with me and tried to feed my hungry brother who was a toddler when my country experienced the ultimate apocalypse of war in the spring of 1945.

But it was you, Americans, and your young men and women who freed us from a monster and I always will be grateful for that. When I travel through the German countryside and see the scars of war in the uncomfortable architectural mix of old and new, I could cry because so many beautiful villages and historical jewels are gone. But then I hold in and fathom that the sacrifice was worth it because my people regained their freedom.

My American friends, don't listen to people like Mr. Arnold. His hatred of Clinton is so boundless and his heart consumed of petty partisan meanness that he fails to grasp the message he set out to disseminate - to be indifferent to murder, rape, destruction and starvation of a people striving for self-determination and independence.

Where were you, Mr. Arnold, when the American military directly or indirectly interfered in the countries of Middle and South America in support of totalitarian, brutal military regimes as recently as the 1980s under President Reagan?

Tell me, Mr. Arnold, did you write comments in support of disengagement 20 years ago? Or would you in case you were too young then to remember?

I doubt it. Do you know that America's conscience is burdened by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Vietnam, Cambodia and many other places? Do you know a tiny little bit about the history of Native America?

Now this nation has an opportunity to fight on the side of liberty and justice. Wars in the Balkans have always been atrocious and the Serbs are fierce fighters. No doubt, we will have to get our hands dirty this time. This is not a war like the Gulf war in 1991, clear sky, no mountains, and so forth. I wish America, once again, will lead the saturated, reluctant Europeans in setting an example of principle and courage to save a people.