Kosovo Crisis

* Robert Scheer (Column Left) and James Pinkerton (Column Right, April 6) seem to have almost switched sides. At the least, they both came closer to the middle. I disagree with Scheer about bringing in the United Nations. There is enough wrangling now with NATO members. Imagine the U.N.! Kosovo would be cleansed, sanitized and repopulated by the time delegates would decide if action was even warranted.

RICHARD A. POEDTKE

Vista

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I go to bed every night secure in the knowledge that I have NATO bombers and untold billions of dollars protecting me and the rest of the West from that specter haunting Europe--the specter of “Greater Albania.”

JONATHAN AURTHUR

Santa Monica

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NATO should announce a 48-hour cease-fire during which the Serbs would be given a chance to evacuate Belgrade. At the end of the cease-fire Belgrade should be bombed out of existence. Seeing thousands of Serbs on the “refugee road” might cause the Yugoslavian government to reassess its actions.

JOHN BOYDSTUN

Woodland Hills

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Didn’t we, at one time, have an organization in the U.S. government called the Central Intelligence Agency? Whatever happened to it? We could have used it now to arm Kosovo citizens to defend themselves against the Serbs, something along the lines used in Afghanistan.

RAY DORFMAN

Woodland Hills

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Now that the United States is to accept Kosovo refugees, the choice of refugee campsites in Guantanamo, Cuba, and possibly Guam would be completely inappropriate. To minimize cultural shock to those unfortunate refugees, they should be relocated to an appropriate temperate, rural, semi-mountainous area: eastern Tennessee near Vice President Al Gore’s home, or in northern Arkansas in the Ozarks.

DREW KELLEY

Downey