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Former General Calls for Darfur Force
May 26, 2006
By JENNIFER SIEGEL | Forward
As world leaders struggle to halt the mass killing in Darfur, former general and 2004 presidential candidate Wesley Clark is calling for NATO to intervene in the conflict and for the United States to commit a small detachment of ground troops.
Clark served as the supreme allied commander of the NATO forces that drove Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic from power in 1999. The former American general's call for heightened intervention in Darfur came on the eve of his first trip back to Kosovo, the Serbian province where ethnic Albanians were targeted by Milosevic for ethnic cleansing.
"[Kosovo is] the perfect model for how the U.S. should be operating in world affairs," Clark said in an interview with the Forward shortly before his departure for the Balkans on Tuesday night. "We provided leadership during the air campaign. In the aftermath, it was actually the Europeans who provided 80% of the forces, and the military leadership on the ground."



