The bombing must be coupled with a warning to the ethnic Albanians that the West's goal is to protect civilians, not help the guerrillas win.

Even if the guerrillas win, no one believes any more it would threaten the U.S.

The guerrillas won an official commitment to economic, social and political reforms, along with an opportunity for their fighters to return, safely, to normal pursuits.

The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

"At the moment, it is as if society were watching to see if the guerrillas or the police win," he said.

The guerrillas had "won" that war, I knew.

But after two months the guerrillas won passage to Cuba, a promise of fairer trials and, according to some reports, $2 million.

If the guerrillas cannot win the civil war outright, the alternative, sooner or later, has to be a political compromise.

Second, the guerrillas can win merely by creating chaos.

They thought human rights abuses would have been worse or that the guerrillas might have won the war without their presence.