Fw: Clinton the Savior
Nov. 2nd, 2009 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mahnmutBill Clinton was welcomed as a hero and savior by thousands of exultant Kosovo Albanians who celebrated the 10 years since he ordered the bombardment of Serbia and stopped the Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. The ceremony in Pristina was for the unveiling of a new statue of the former president. The statue shows Clinton waving a hand, while holding a folder in the other, with the date of the resolution for the attack on Serbia.
That comes as no surprise, as he's widely regarded as the savior of the Kosovo Albanians, and the US is very respected there.
The Serbs of course think this is a blatant provocation and they say it's not the right thing to do at a time when everyone's hoping for improvement in the fragile relations between Kosovo and Serbia. (Some, this time not Serbians but international observers, say that the bigger concern right now is whether Kosovo would become the next avant-post and money-laundering haven of the Albanian drug mafia, or it'll somehow manage to build its own legitimate institutions - but time will tell).
Nevertheless, the celebrations continued, and the crowd chanted "USA!" while Clinton was giving his thank-you speech at the square where the statue will stand from now on.
Reminds me of the last time a statue of a savior was raised by Albanians, but that one was in Tirana. The statue showed Lenin waving a hand.
I hope this time history won't repeat itself, but something tells me, chances are that it probably will.
[discussion here]
That comes as no surprise, as he's widely regarded as the savior of the Kosovo Albanians, and the US is very respected there.
The Serbs of course think this is a blatant provocation and they say it's not the right thing to do at a time when everyone's hoping for improvement in the fragile relations between Kosovo and Serbia. (Some, this time not Serbians but international observers, say that the bigger concern right now is whether Kosovo would become the next avant-post and money-laundering haven of the Albanian drug mafia, or it'll somehow manage to build its own legitimate institutions - but time will tell).
Nevertheless, the celebrations continued, and the crowd chanted "USA!" while Clinton was giving his thank-you speech at the square where the statue will stand from now on.
Reminds me of the last time a statue of a savior was raised by Albanians, but that one was in Tirana. The statue showed Lenin waving a hand.
I hope this time history won't repeat itself, but something tells me, chances are that it probably will.
[discussion here]
