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To: LindyBill who wrote (261085)	8/10/2008 9:06:56 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 794032

Most interesting article. Only now, many years later, the story behind the story is beginning to come out - in dribs and drabs.

To: LindyBill who wrote (261085)	8/10/2008 10:53:24 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 794032

Readers of Chronicles magazine were kept up to speed on what was happening there at the time, particularly the columns of Srdja Trifkovic. Of course, if you read Chronicles, you're associating yourself with the dreaded paleos. :) chroniclesmagazine.org en.wikipedia.org The bit on Wesley Clark is amazing. >>As part of a U.S. military planning staff, I (amongst other educated U.S. military officers) attempted to warn the amazingly insane and emotionally unstable Gen Wesley Clark that his intentions would lead only to the following: 1) We would facilitate the establishment of a Muslim state in Kosovo. 2) This would be the second Muslim state to established in the heart of Europe, following Bosnia, in just three years. What might the consequences be? 3) This would grow into a very painful experience for Europe and the U.S. 10-20 years down the road. 4) We would enforce Serbia's perception that they are the bastard stepchild of Western Civilization. Clark fired over twenty of his top intelligence analysts for briefing these views to him. He persisted with his fantasy that the Kosovar Albanians were as pure and clean as the wind-driven snow; innocent victims of a simple Serbian compulsion for evil. Yeah, right! Clark was clueless and a madman. Behind closed doors, the overwhelming majority of officers on the EUCOM planning team thought he was INSANE. However, after he fired the first several, everyone got the picture. Cook the intel to make the Kosovars look like angels and the Serbs like demons. Clark had a demented and paranoid beef with Milo because the Serbian President showed the American General no deferrence whatsoever during Dayton negotiations with Ambassador Holbrook, for whom Clark was a bag carrier/military aide.