Posted on 02/03/2005 12:24:21 AM PST by nickcarraway
While President Bush deposes despots and spreads democracy in the Middle East, this week in the Wall Street Journal Wesley Clark reminds us how Bill Clinton dismantled a democracy and helped create yet another mono-ethnic (Islamic) state in Europe's underbelly -- Kosovo. Not in so many words, of course -- Clark merely meant to endorse and outline independence for the former Yugoslavian province. That's why, for those who have not been following recent developments in the region, I offer a translation of Clark's assessment.
Clark writes, "With each passing day, tensions in Kosovo grow." Translation: With each passing day, Muslim Albanians grow angrier that there are still some Christian Serbs living in Kosovo.
"Nearly six years on, Serbs and Albanians still cannot live together." Translation: It is rather difficult to live with Albanians when they keep trying to kill you.
"Serbia's avowed aim is to prevent Kosovo from becoming independent." Translation: In furtherance of the 1999 U.N.-NATO position that Kosovo would be granted autonomy but never independence, Serbia's avowed aim is to prevent Kosovo from becoming an independent Islamic terrorist doorway into the rest of Europe, which it already is anyway.
"Neither side is ready for bridge-building." Translation: Albanians are still burning down bridges, homes, and churches.
"Further clashes…could result in an emergency partition of Kosovo's territory, creating a precedent threatening to unravel U.S. and EU investments in stabilizing multi-ethnic states throughout the Balkans." Translation: Further clashes could result in partitioning Kosovo and threatening to unravel Clinton's, Albright's, Holbrooke's, Berger's and my investments of taxpayer money in destabilizing the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and creating mono-ethnic ones throughout the Balkans.
"After the rioting of last March, some have questioned whether this fragile, volatile and underdeveloped society either deserves or can sustain its own state." Translation: Ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Serbian population of Kosovo constitutes "rioting."
"While these concerns are valid, it is important to remember that Kosovo has already.developed the foundations of a modern, functioning economy." Translation: There is a thriving sex-slave trade, plus there's the drug trafficking whose profits go to further the aims of al Qaeda et al.
"The pace at which Kosovo is allowed to progress toward full independence should be made contingent on its treatment of minorities." Translation: Okay, so Albanians have killed a lot of Serbs. As my old boss would say, "Let's move on." If they don't kill any more, then they can have their state. Well, maybe one or two dead Serbs is okay. Or I guess a few dozen is bearable. Okay, but no more than a few hundred dead Serbs. Okay, a few thousand, but that's my final offer.
"Unlike the case of Iraq, there is today no active conflict in Kosovo." Translation: Since a conflict involves at least two parties killing each other, if only Albanians are killing Serbs, then there's no conflict.
Kosovo was a success after all.
Clinton, aiding and abetting foreign and domestic killers.
Good find. And there is another problem not mentioned above. A few wackos tried to accuse the Serbs of genocide. But that was over the top, so they used the term, 'ethnic cleansing'. [Am I mistaken or was the term first coined over this claim?]
The claims of genocide were a complete slander, based on false rumors. The opposite, in fact, is now occurring, thanks to Clinton.
Another point that can't be emphasized enough: WE DELIBERATELY TARGETED CHRISTIAN CIVILIANS! We blew up bridges during rush hour. We blew up a TV station. I don't remember all the targets we AIMED at, targets that we currently avoid at all cost? Why? We have a more humane president in the White House, one who does not veto partial-birth abortion, one who does not pardon crack dealers for cash, one who does not pardon terrorists for votes, and yet a president who is hated by the left rather than loved.
Kill Christian civilians and babies, and the left will love you.
This is the only war American liberals will ever support: a war that is against the interests of the US.
Building a terrorist state in Kosovo is against the interests of the US. Therefore the liberals like it.
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Horse manure, Arthur. First, we had more restictions on targetting in the Kosovo conflict than in any other war, to include the Afghanistan and the most recent Iraq War. Second, sorry to disappoint you, but our Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots do not deliberately bomb civilians, Christian or otherwise. And it doesn't matter who the President is. It is illegal, it is a war crime, and if you have credible evidence that our pilots deliberately targetted civilians, please post it. I will personally ensure it gets provided to the appropriate service judge advocate so the responsible pilots and mission planners can be prosecuted for murder. Because that is what it is if what you say is true.
Civilians bombed in Aleksinac:
Nis market (a CIVILIAN target) hit by cluster bombs in the middle of the day:
Thank you for the photographic evidence. I do not fault our military for this strategy. In fact, a complete disregard for collateral damage has been SOP prior to the Bush administration. It takes incredible technology, skill, restraint, and military superiority for a nation to actually win through surgical strikes.
I am proud of our current president, and his effort to keep civilian deaths down to a minimum.
I agree that Clinton was abominable. But I do not want the UN's World Court to touch any US citizen. Any effort to validate the UN's authority to arrest Clinton would result in a two-step into arresting the UN's real enemies-- people like Bush, who messed up their Oil-for-Food rackateering.
"Horse manure, Arthur. First, we had more restictions on targetting in the Kosovo conflict than in any other war..."
How can we target a bridge during rush hour and be giving half a darn about civilian deaths?
"From 350-400 innocent woman, children, and old people were incinerated by two laser-guided bombs that entered through ventilation shafts, five minutes apart."
Was that the bombing that happened on the same day as Clinton's impeachment vote? There were also rumors of sending ground troops that day, as well.
No Arthur. That happened 8 years previously in Baghdad in the Gulf War under President Bush. And that shelter was thought to be an underground C2 bunker--that is why it was attacked. Oplenac is an anti-American who occasionally posts here and whose ideas about American history are pretty much limited to slavery, Wounded Knee, Hiroshima and My Lai. Joan is a Serb extremist who also says Americans deliberately kill civilians and has stated that U.S. military actions in Iraq are worse than the Serb ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. And you, Arthur, appear to be their useful tool.
Mark states that I am anti-American, though my criticism is always focused on unfair, unjust, or hypocritical policies of the US government--and not directed toward the people, or country as a whole.
Please notice this OFFICIAL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT COMMENDATION of General Wesley Clark regarding Kosovo by then Defense Secretary William Cohen on May 1, 2000:
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2000/t05022000_t501koso.html
DoD News Briefing
Monday, May 1, 2000
Presenter: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
(Also participating in the Joint Press Conference was Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff in Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo)
Sec Def.: We are hoping that we will provide the basis for the people of Kosovo to establish institutions that will make them self-governing. That there will be local elections held this fall. We want to see institutions built that will allow the people in Kosovo to function. That is our hope and that is why KFOR is here. We are hoping that as things stabilize more and more, that the UN and its mission can take over the major responsibilities in Kosovo. We cannot put a time table on that.
Q: This is General Clark's last visit to Kosovo today. Any word on how he has performed his job?
Sec Def.: He has done an extraordinary job. General Clark is one of our most brilliant officers. He undertook a mission that is perhaps one the most complicated and complex and carried it out successfully. As I mentioned in my remarks, this air campaign was the most successful in the history of warfare. We had over 38,000 sorties that were flown. We had only two planes that were shot down and no pilots lost. That is a record that is unparalleled in the history of warfare. So, General Clark and his entire staff and subordinates and all who participated deserve great credit.
Q: Why is he leaving office, then?
Sec Def.: He is leaving because we have General Ralston who will become the new SACEUR. We are now replacing many of our CINCs throughout the world.
Q: It is not a reflection on his performance?
Sec Def: No reflection at all. He has done an outstanding job as the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Southern Command, and he did an outstanding job here as EUCOM Commander and also as SACEUR.
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