Among congressional supporters of the NATO bombing and the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been one of the most ardent. As the San Francisco Chronicle's Carolyn Lochhead reported last week, Feinstein in an interview was "strongly supportive, ticking off the number of air sorties run, the percentages of Yugoslavia's oil refining and ammunition production that had been destroyed and the number of clear nights that allied pilots had experienced."
That was before the Clinton policy ran headlong into Feinstein's other favorite cause: kowtowing to the Chinese government. For Feinstein, who once compared U.S. human rights violations to Beijing's (because Kent State=Tiananmen Square), the unfortunate bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade meant "the mission ought to be brought to an end." You can't win wars, she said, "by tossing bombs around like popcorn."
Feinstein's support for any Clinton administration policy is apparently conditioned on its never coming into conflict with China's desires.