Democrats Seem Excited By The Chance That Their Own Macho Unilateralist Cowboy Might Run For President Not because of what he did ... what he did was fight an easy war on trumped up charges in Europe. He fought it entirely from the air, doing billions of dollars in destruction yet causing no American casualties while displacing hundreds of thousands. Yes, it's just the kind of war Democrats love. What they are excited about must be what Europeans said he WANTED to do: From "The Guardian", August 3, 1999: "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if Nato's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the cold war. "I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital. Hyperbole, perhaps. But, by all accounts, Jackson was deadly serious. Clark, as he himself observed, was frustrated after fighting a war with his hands tied behind his back, and was apparently willing to risk everything for the sake of amour-propre. " It never strikes Europeans as odd that they so casually disobey direct orders in their military, or that they have a penchant for exaggeration. Surely preventing the Russians from taking over an aiport, in a place where the people are deathly afraid of the Russians based on experience, would lead to the "third world war." What a load of rubbish. Yet some orders, especially if they involve doing nothing, are happily obeyed by Europeans. Like July 1995, for instance, when the French chose to turn the other way as Serbian troops stormed the U.N.-protected safe haven of Srebrenica. They were under orders not to protect the victims of the ensuing massacre because Chirac had brokered a deal with Milosevic for some hostages in return. Srebrenica was sacrificed: When Serbs took the town, they killed its entire male population of 7,000 men and boys and expelled the women on a long mountainous trek across Serb defense lines. For a party resentful of the kind of military people who act decisively, it's odd that the Democrats aren't criticizing Clark. Or maybe they were just happy that the British were there to settle him down. We could just elect Tony Blair, I suppose. If we can give California driver's licenses to people who aren't even citizens or supposed to be in this country, I guess we can give the Presidency to a European. Article Here