They Love Bill in Kosovo!

"Kosovo Albanians plan to honour their “saviour” Bill Clinton by erecting a statue of the former United States president in the capital of Serbia’s breakaway province......Pristina municipal authorities say that they expect to erect the statue somewhere along Clinton Boulevard later this summer."

Let's play foreign policy nostaglia! When American influence and military power are used wisely and effectively, we can bring peace and prosperity to various parts of the world. Remember when allies matter? Like NATO. I don't remember Bill landing in a jet wearing a flak jacket announcing that the Kosovo conflict was over. Perhaps Bill Clinton doesn't deserve a 10 foot statue in Kristina. Let the "Kosovers" make that decision. I do know that the morass in Iraq is bordering on insanity and words cannot properly describe the immensity or the proportions of this war's recklessness or senselessness. Only Joseph Conrad gets close.

As Kurtz laid dying, he said.'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, `Oh, nonsense!' and stood over him as if transfixed.

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: "`The horror! The horror!'