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 [1], who is currently writing a biography of Clark and was active in his 2004 campaign)
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