Remember When He Was a Hero?

In July, 1995, a force of Serbians walked past UN Peacekeepers and massacred roughly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men in the town of Srebrenica. In August of the same year, the Serbain army shelled a marketplace in Sarajevo, killing dozens of civilians and wounding many more. President Bill Clinton decided to intervene directly. He rallied several NATO nations, after much diplomatic arm-twisting, and began a bombing campaign that eventually brought down the bloodthirsty Slobodan Milosevic. The man who led that campaign, and saved thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Muslims from certain genocide, was General Wesley Clark.

Today, Iranian bombs still continue to kill American soldiers and Iraqi civilians while our soldiers bravely drive friendly casualties lower and lower. The government-backed Janjaweed soldiers in Darfur have killed ten soldiers of an undermanned and largely-forgotten force who are there to guard the survivors of a brutal and ongoing genocide. The military junta in Burma has certainly killed dozens and perhaps as high as “several thousand” monks and others in Burma whose only real crime is wanting to live free.

What has former General and former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark to say about any of these things? What words of courage and heroism has he shared with us to stir us to action, as he once stirred us to free the Bosnian Muslims from extinction?

I’ll have to get back to you on that. He seems to be pretty busy right now spinning lies about Rush Limbaugh to have his program removed from Armed Forces Radio. Maybe after he’s done that vital task, he can get around to the stuff he apparently thinks isn’t quite so important, like using his military expertise to help stop a couple ongoing atrocities.

(via memeorandum)