Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command
Michael Moore to endorse Wesley Clark... Moore: 'He's an honest and decent man. I would like to see the General debate the deserter'...
Obviously Moore hasn't read this WaPo piece from Jeffery Smith:
Clark's Role in Kosovo Exemplifies His Traits
This article amply reveals Clark's lack of judgment, unilateral decision making and certainly raises doubts about his fitness as Commander-in-chief.
..."But Rand's Air Force report, written by analyst Benjamin Lambeth, said "NATO's leaders. . . had little to congratulate themselves about, when it came to the way in which the air war was planned and carried out." A second Rand report, prepared by a team of Army analysts, concurred that "problems abounded during the NATO military operation," citing in particular the absence of "any significant military planning" for a sustained conflict."
We are told daily by Moore's comrades on the Left that Bush's cowboy personality, failed diplomacy and lack of consultation lead us into Iraq. What does Moore make of this?
British author of Phillip Knightley, author of "The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Mythmaker from the Crimea to Kosovo" offered this Speech at the Committee for Peace in the Balkans Public Seminar, Committee Room 10, House of Commons, London SW1, June 27, 2000, Titled: The media -- NATO's willing accomplice?"And in May, General Michael Short, in charge of targeting policy, told the
International Herald Tribune, "I think no power to your refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get to work because the bridge is down -- the bridge on which you hold your rock concerts and on which you all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to disappear at three in the morning." What is that, other than admission of the intention deliberately to bomb civilian targets. Okay, so Short did not get permission to bomb the bridge in Belgrade but in June General Wesley Clark admitted to the BBC's Mark Urban that NATO planes were targeting "phase 3" (civilian) targets without the approval of NATO’s decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council of Ambassadors in Brussels." (my emphasis)
Clark asks voters to trust him to keep us safe. Shall we see how well this panned out in the Balkans? Kosovo Daily offers ample evidence that Clark failed miserably in keeping the Kosovars safe...surf the many links and judge for yourself. NATO can't find Karadzic, Misolovich's party won the elections and the old hatreds simmer just below the surface:
This from the Financial Times Subscription Service:
Serbia hits at UN for handing over greater powers to Kosovo By Eric Jansson in Belgrade Published: January 3 2004 4:00 | Last Updated: January 3 2004 4:00 Serbia has criticised the United Nations for transferring important powers to the breakaway republic of Kosovo.The UN move gives Kosovo's locally elected institutions - dominated by ethnic Albanians who seek independence from Serbia - greater control over economic policy, finance, media supervision and agriculture.
It comes at a sensitive moment and appeared to catch Belgrade off guard.
Serbia is still reeling from parliamentary elections last Sunday in which
ultra-nationalists alarmed democratic reformers by winning a robust minority. The nation lacks a president, and talks on forming a new government have yet to begin.
Clinton, Albright and their willing tool; Clark, succeeded in fracturing our relationship with Russia, deposed a despotic leader by destroying the infrastructure and economy of Yugoslavia and Kosovo. Peace and comity is still not realized, insuring further inequities that will fuel an ethnic/religious hatred that knows no boundary, no timeline, it waits decades, even centuries, to emerge intact.
Hat tip to Stephen Green for providing my first election heartburn of the day.
Posted by feste at January 13, 2004 12:14 PM | TrackBack