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...Wesley Clark was the NATO Supreme Commander who led the U.S. war against Serbia in Kosovo in 1999 and failed in his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. He was seen as "Bill Clinton's general," hailing, like Clinton, from Arkansas - he backed Hillary Clinton earlier this year in her bid for the nomination. Many military officers viewed Clark as a political general, which is peculiar: all generals are political; some just hide it better than others...
...still be the place to be seen in northern Mitrovica, but the riverside cafe no longer oozes a sense of imminent danger. It was tense, this past winter, when Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and La Dolce Vita's regulars gathered in a tense silence, sipping slivovitz plum brandy, smoking, and waiting for the news from Belgrade. As the Serb capital was gripped by violent protests that included an attempt to torch the U.S. embassy, life became in Mitrovica became dangerous for Serbian and foreign journalists covering local demonstrations: Several had their cameras smashed; some were beaten. A Serb reporter...
...hundred years of solitude” in his most celebrated novel. Although García Márquez may be correct about Latin America as a whole, the Bolivian navy does not fit his regional argument. This is not just because other landlocked countries, like Rwanda and Serbia, also have navies. Rather, it is because irrational behavior has always been at the core of international relations...
...Democrats and the Socialists will be uneasy, but far from impossible. Under Ivica Dacic, a youngish leader who took over the party after Milosevic's death in 2004, the Socialists have discarded much of their nationalist ideology and focused on social issues, which explains their relative success in Serbia. Neglecting the country's pauperized working class, which faced massive job losses and severe cuts in social benefits during Serbia's bumpy road to capitalism, was one of key mistakes of Serbia's pro-Western politicians after Milosevic's fall. With the Socialists in the government, this can now be corrected...
...However, this is not the only fix that Serbia now needs; too many ghosts from the past still haunt the country. Fugitive General Ratko Mladic, indicted for the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, needs to be apprehended and delivered to The Hague. In order to achieve this, Serbia's security sector - the police, intelligence agencies, and the military - needs to be drastically purged of the old cadre and reformed. And the economy, still largely controlled by the state, needs to be allowed to develop unhindered by the government's heavy hand...