{"id":1766,"date":"2005-02-02T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T03:28:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-02T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T03:28:39","slug":"wesley-clark-and-free-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/wesley-clark-and-free-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Clark and \u201cFree Kosovo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a commentary for Wall Street Journal<\/i> yesterday (February 1, 2005; Page A12), pretentiously titled \u201cSet Kosovo Free,\u201d none other than the real Butcher of Belgrade, ex-General Wesley Clark<\/a>, stumped for the latest outrage by his employer, the International Crisis Group<\/a>.
\n(Like other content from the War Street Journal<\/a>, Clark\u2019s editorial isn\u2019t online.) <\/p>\n

It is only natural that Clark pimps an \u201cindependent\u201d Kosovo, given his role in the aggression that brought about the occupation of that Serbian province. Furthermore, his cozy relationship with the KLA terrorists went above and beyond the call of duty, as shown by last year\u2019s video<\/a> of him and Richard Holbrooke fundraising for John Kerry among the New York KLA.
\nClark, who once aspired to presidency on a Democratic ticked (with the gushing endorsement<\/a> of Michael Moore!) now fully endorses Bush\u2019s \u201cvisionary\u201d inaugural pledge to promote \u201cfreedom abroad.\u201d
\nLike his military accomplishments, Clark\u2019s arguments are specious. Echoing ICG\u2019s claim that a new conflict threatens to erupt in Kosovo, Clark blames it on a phantom \u201cstrategy of provocation\u201d from Belgrade, not the very real hateful belligerence of his KLA buddies. He\u2019s even got the nerve to charge that \u201cafter a decade of Belgrade\u2019s oppression capped by war, mass expulsion and atrocities, Kosovo\u2019s 90% Albanian majority rejects completely any renewed link with Serbia and will not settle for less than independence.\u201d
\nLet\u2019s see: The \u2018oppression\u2019 was a myth<\/a>. \u2018Mass expulsion\u2019 was a propaganda stunt<\/a>. \u2018Atrocities\u2019 ditto<\/a>. Albanians got to be 90% of the population by, well: oppression, mass expulsion (of non-Albanians), atrocities and war. Ah yes, the war of unprovoked aggression Clark fought on KLA\u2019s behalf! According to the Nuremberg Principles<\/a>, that makes him a war criminal. So honestly, no one should care what the Kosovo Albanians – or Wesley Clark and the ICG – are or are not prepared to settle for.
\nIn any sane universe, Kosovo would<\/i> be free \u2013 of the Empire and the KLA \u2013 and the Wesley Clarks of the world would be in jail.
\nO tempora, o mores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a commentary for Wall Street Journal yesterday (February 1, 2005; Page A12), pretentiously titled \u201cSet Kosovo Free,\u201d none other than the real Butcher of Belgrade, ex-General Wesley Clark, stumped for the latest outrage by his employer, the International Crisis Group. (Like other content from the War Street Journal, Clark\u2019s editorial isn\u2019t online.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}