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The American Council for Kosovo Protests Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku – Kosovo Serb spokesman: Ceku should be standing trial, “not being received with honors in the capital of any civilized democracy.” – Monday, 19 June 2006 WASHINGTON, June 19, 2006 – The American Council for Kosovo protests the official visit to Washington, DC, of Agim Ceku, an indicted war criminal and former commander of the jihad terrorist organization, the so-called “Kosovo Liberation Army.” According to the Associated Press, Mr. Ceku is scheduled to meet today with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and with officials...

A visitor touches the monument to the Kosovo Albanian guerrillas killed during the 1998-99 war in Serbia's southern province, in the village of Morina, 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of the capital Pristina, June 20, 2006. The U.N. Security Council is due to hear the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, on Tuesday, REUTERS/Hazir Reka

The American Council for Kosovo Protests Washington Visit of Terrorist and War Criminal Agim Ceku –Kosovo Serb spokesman: Ceku should be standing trial, “not being received with honors in the capital of any civilized democracy.” The American Council for Kosovo protests the official visit to Washington, DC, of Agim Ceku, an indicted war criminal and former commander of the jihad terrorist organization, the so-called “Kosovo Liberation Army.” According to the Associated Press, Mr. Ceku is scheduled to meet today with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and with officials at the White House, before proceeding to New York for a...

"We found also that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies." (John Kerry, Senate Testimony on Vietnam, April, 1971) "They were wrong and soldiers lost their lives because they were wrong. And America's paying billions of dollars because they were wrong. And allies are not with us because they were wrong..." (The Guardian, July 12, 2004) The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same... www.grassboots.org

Flying back home on the day the NATO summit opened in Istanbul, I came across an article by a British journalist, Charles Clover, in the venerable Financial Times. In it, the author blasted the American military in astonishingly vitriolic language. He described our troops as “socially maladjusted” and “natural-born killers” that have become "socially maladjusted" and "natural-born killers" that have become "America’s main international liability.” My first reaction was that, had Mr. Clover’s screed been published earlier, he might have secured a feature role as a talking head in Michael Moore’s new anti-Bush demagoguementary. My second reaction was to contrast...