with "the petty Hitler" up and during the Bosnian war. He spoke a little about the trial - mostly about how arrogant Milosevic was:
Generally, Clark detailed his experience as NATO Supreme Commander negotiating intensively with President Milosevic. Together with Richard Holbrooke (UN), Clark said that they first met Milosevic in 1995 to pressure him regarding the Bosnian conflict and the ethnic-cleansing atrocities that were evident by the President at the time. Milosevic did so grudgingly, mostly due to the pressure that he was undergoing from the Croatian Army and from US diplomatic pressure.
When Margaret Werner asked how Milosevic's epithet would read, Clark described Milosevic, as a "Petty Hitler", a war criminal who had to be stopped and someone with "naked ambition" to hold onto power. Clark noted that Milsevic was very poor as a negotiator, someone who tended divert blame for the atrocities, and someone whose behavior demonstrated a "godfather-like" performance.
During Clark's testimony in 2003, he noted that Milosevic was completely "unrepentent", who behaved like a "Chester cat" and who thought that he could play him (Clark) like a "cat with a squirrel". But Clark read right through these tactics suggesting that Melosevic demonstrated very raw skills towards his own defense during the Hague trial. Clark said it was his effort to showcase his grand view for a 'greater Serbia", since the trials were being broadbast in Serbia. Overall, Clark's interview was similar to details that were printed in the WSJ Op/Ed piece today.http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/5010#comment-84688Hope that gives you the idea, Frenchie! :hi:
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