Genius.

Somebody in the Bosnian Department of Thinking Waaaay Outside the Box need a serious promotion for this idea.

Bosnians agree: Commemorate Bruce Lee
By Beth Kampschror | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MOSTAR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - In the heart of Europe's war-torn Balkans, a land where it's hard to get people to agree on anything, there's one point of common ground: The new Bruce Lee statue will point north.

When it is unveiled in Mostar Saturday, the 5-foot, 7-inch bronze likeness will be the world's first monument to the late great martial arts star - edging out by one day a new statue going up in Hong Kong. Bosnia-Herzegovina is about as far as one can get from the Hong Kong streets where the Chinese-American film legend unleashed his fists of fury. But, in some ways, that's the point.

"He's far [enough] away from us that nobody can ask what he did during World War II, during World War I, or what his ancestors did under Turkey. He's ... not Catholic, not Orthodox, not Muslim," says Veselin Gatalo, head of Mostar's Urban Movement group. "Bruce Lee is part of our idea of universal justice - that the good guys can win."
While it may prompt some snickers, the Bruce Lee tribute will stand as the only monument raised in postwar Bosnia without an uproar. Bruce's greatest virtue - beyond his two-fingered push up - is that he had no dog in the Balkans' centuries-old religious fight.

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Survivors of a Serb-run detention camp at Omarska are awaiting international mediation about their proposed monument.
Rebuilding mosques, churches, and bridges also invites squabbles over whether a place was historically Croat, Muslim, or Serb. Moderates say these sites belong to everyone. "To talk about cultural heritage in these terms is totally wrong," says Amra Hadzimuhamedovic, an architect on the state Commission to Preserve National Monuments.

The Bruce Lee statue is something everyone can support, says Mr. Gatalo. But in a town where Croats are concentrated in west Mostar and Muslims in east, Gatalo's group had to consider which way the "Enter the Dragon" icon would face.
"If he faced west he'd be defending east Mostar from west Mostar, or west Mostar from east," Gatalo says. "And he can't face south, because that's Croatia. Facing north, he looks nowhere."

Sometimes you have to walk to the other side of the Earth to find a reason to agree, but sometimes it's worth it. Although, yes, I freely admit if it had been left up to me I’d have chosen “Montressor” from “The Cask of Amontillado”,

but I’m low and perverse and should not be trusted with such delicate matters.

What I am certain of is that, within 10 years we can and will erect, without dispute, a statue of George W. Bush, unshaven, knee-walking drunk and looking for the 9/11 culprits under lamp post labeled “Iraq”.

Because, as the joke goes, even though Iraq’s a thousand miles away from where he lost his keys, he though the political light would be better in downtown Baghdad.

Why will we be able to build such a monument in 2015?

Because by that time, outside of a few, holdout, inbred, Christopath-cult pestholes, no one is going to admit to having actually cast their vote for the man who is fast going down in history as the leader of the Most Spectacularly Venial and Incompetent Presidency in United States’ History.