Other than, having ordered bombing raids on civilian targets during the NATO’s aggression on former Yugoslavia, Wesley Clark’s views are probably sound only from a military point of view. The obliterated Chinese Embassy in Belgrade couldn’t have been only “an error” ascribed to “collateral damage”. Even to this day General Clark maintains his misconception, ignorance and unwillingness to see things the way they really are. Perhaps it would not suit him to admit any of the prior errors as he might one day find himself facing some set of judges for the criminal actions he had endorsed and commanded during the 1999 military aggression against a sovereign country.


In light of General Clark’s support for Kosovo Albanians, I feel surprised that the General has not once acknowledged the atrocities committed by the Kosovar Albanians towards the Serbian (present day) minority. As a matter of fact, General Clark’s view is either dismissive, incomplete, or just plain UNTRUE. In his remarks, regarding the ongoing Kosovo problems, General Clark seems to be repeating the old “Albanian Kosovo Mantra” – “Serbians have persecuted us for centuries, so now we killed a few of them in return”. This mantra is both inaccurate as it is unintelligent, and it is surprising to me that a person of General Clark’s abilities, education and intellect, would fall a victim to such a blatant lie, while he continues to propagate that same lie, neglecting to see the need to suppress even the present day ON-GOING violence in Kosovo (today exclusively Albanian Kosovars killing the Serbians), while some villages are left with only 3, 5 or 10 Serbian residents. These events (especially March 14 to march 25, 2004) have been called a Pogrom, even “ethnic cleansing”, and well documented even within the traditionally anti-Serbian media. Not one dissent has ever been produced which would have possibly denied the numerous church burning, cemetery desecrations, killings and expelling of the few Serbian families. It is beyond pointless, to ask for mother and tell her “mommy, mommy, Tom hit me back first so had to beat the crap out of him”. That infantile logic is not befitting one of the most deserving American generals.

Is there a way, if only in theory, for Clark to maintain any political objectivity, after his strong alliance with KLA, same KLA which only a few years after having been "liberated" by the same Clark now murders civilians, burns churches, desecrates cemeteries and expells non-Albanian civilians. If that illustrates Clark's political shortsightedness, it also illustrates his lack of critical judgment and absolutly no political maturity.

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Iliya Pavlovich