Wesley Clark Street
Our picture shows Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO and Democratic Presidential candidate in 2004, at the dedication of a street named after him in the Kosovar capital of Pristina. Clark led the Allied campaign that stopped the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo in 1999. Notably, the province is at peace today.
He joins a long list of Americans similarly honored in Europe, including President Kennedy in Berlin and Frankfurt; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Paris and London; President Eisenhower in Brussels; and President Woodrow Wilson, again in Paris, London and Versailles.
Any guesses on what the grateful people of Iraq will name after George W. Bush?
An abattoir, perhaps?
(Hat tip to Gordon Suber, who is currently writing a biography of Clark and was active in his 2004 campaign)
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2008 Elections | War
Actually, that's not true
Submitted by Retired LTC (not verified) on 26 May 2006 - 7:26pm.
A recent UN report that all incidence of ethnic crime in Kosovo for the first quarter of this year said that there were 12 attacks on Kosovar Serbs, and 6 attacks on Kosovar Albanians. It strikes me a rather significant that ethnic Albanians constitute approximately 90% of the population, but the Serbs are still causing about a third of the trouble. But regardless, 19 incidents (there was one against a Croat) is hardly large-scale violence in a population of close to two million.
But there does exist a Serb lobby in this country that is trying to get the Bush administration to block Kosovar independence by scaring Americans into thinking the ethnic Albanians are all terrorists and criminals. A real good run-down of their propaganda campaign can be found at http://balkanupdate.blogspot.com/2006/05/serbian-lobby-attempts-to-hijac...
Wesley Clark
Submitted by rwallnerny on 26 May 2006 - 5:09pm.
I predict that if Hillary Clinton gets the 2008 presidential nomination for the democrats, that Wesley Clark will be on a very short list of VP candidates.
With Hillary being a woman and having no military experience, she will have people attacking her as not being qualified to be supreme commander of the armed forces. Having a decorated four star general as your VP moots that argument a bit.
Don't be surprised if its Clinton/Clark in '08.
Or it could be Clark/Clinton
Submitted by Retired LTC (not verified) on 26 May 2006 - 7:30pm.
I for one don't think Clinton is a shoe-in for the 2008 nomination. Yeah, she's got money and contacts, but there are an awful lot of folks, both among activists and the rank & file, who are very concerned about her ability to win the general election.
Clinton has near 100% name recognition. If people had more confidence in her viability at the top of a ticket, she's be polling a LOT higher than the mid-30s.
Thanks for the rape babies
Submitted by Liza Sabater on 26 May 2006 - 9:27pm.
That's all I can think of whenever I hear of Serbia or Kosovo.
The street pictured is in Djakovica
Submitted by ZacZaca (not verified) on 28 May 2006 - 10:25am.
I understand a street in Pristina was named after Clark years ago, around the time one was named for Clinton. However, this one is newly named in his honor for this particular visit and is in Djakovica.
Love those American flags. It's almost shocking to see anymore outside the US.
George bush
Submitted by raz (not verified) on 23 June 2006 - 1:26pm.
everyone raps on George, my question to them is what would you have done different? allowed them to continue attacking? Or counter attack and leave hoping there's not some left to regroup, or establish a government to contol the situation over there? or is there just some option that im not aware of?
There is
Submitted by Bouldin on 23 June 2006 - 8:15pm.
Like reading one-page briefings entitled "Osama bin Laden determined to strike inside the United States"or, heck, not invading third-world countries based on unverified data.
That would be a good start.
No peace for Kosovo Serbs
As i understand it, Serb residents of Pristina and elsewhere in Kosovo are subject to violence and under fairly extreme pressure to leave from more nationalistic Albanian groups.