British officer likens US generals to gung-ho movie stars: report

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/18/06 | AFP

[Prokopton]

Any normal, real man looks like John Wayne to a Nancy Boy.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

The air force passed out bronze stars for munitions loader's for the stealth bombers, while they were in Missouri no less.

[Cheburashka]

I would say the Brits could use a little more 'John Wayne' and less 'Labourite Peacekeeping Babble'.
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Reminds me of Patton and Montgomery in Sicily and France in WWII.
In both cases it's a matter of the Americans fighting a war in a way that the Brits can't and don't want to.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

The old Chamberlain syndrome lingers yet.

[muleskinner]

Sharp said "loud voices, full body armour, wrap-around sunglasses, air strikes and daily broadcasts from shoulder-holster wearing brigadier generals proudly announcing how many Iraqis have been killed by US forces today"

WTF? Did anybody else see the brigadier generals he's talking about? I didn't.

[Cheburashka]

and then, there was ..
Weasley Cluck.
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Good point.
I for one am glad that a British General had enough sense not to start a war with the Russians over some lousy Balkan airfield, just because the NATO commander (Weasley) ordered him to.
And even Bill Clinton saw the wisdom of this, since Clark was replaced before his term was over.
Too bad the DUmmies who love Clark haven't seen through him. But if they had, they wouldn't be DUmmies, now would they?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Gordon, Mahdi Fuzzy Wuzzies, Khartoum et al, just one case in point, not a good batting average dealing with the locals.

In the Boer War, the Brits instituted the first concentration camps, where they rounded up and starved Boer women and children to death in attempting to break the will of the Boer fighting men.

Now General, shall we move on next to the despicable atrocities your country committed in India?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

30,000 feet Wes.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>>"(and a growing number of the general population)"<<<<<

We have our Lemmings as well, truth be told such a small minority of this entire Planet is worth a popcorn fart.

Leaders, Hero's, Innovators, Producers and Thinkers are all RARE, education or environment does not produce them, they are born and then only odd circumstance/luck or persistence will take charge and thrust the common man to be recognized as a Leader, Hero, Innovator, Producer or Thinker.

The UK doesn't have the corner on ANY market of good or bad that I know of.

(On the lighter side France may produce the most cowards of any Country on the Planet, I'm told that Canada is tired of outsourcing their cowards to France and has lately suffered a decrease in the number of yellow linguine spined cowards from the US and hopes that Hollywood will fund a new Oliver Stone movie and try to reverse the trend)

TT

[TexasTransplant]

>>>>"WTF? Did anybody else see the brigadier generals he's talking about? I didn't"<<<<<

I'd love to be in the same room as General Schwarzkopf and this guy while Schwarzkopf hands this idiot his ass!

TT

[SandwicheGuy]

dangle from the thorax.

Good Grief, John Holmes, eat your heart out!

[proudpapa]

Slight edit:

A senior British military officer, believes FRENCH generals try to act like gung-ho movie stars such as John Wayne.

That'll be the day!

[castlebrew]

when you've got 'em by the ba!!s, their hearts and minds will follow...

[luvbach1]

...believe detachment from the US serves Britain's interests in the world.

Oh, I'm sure that's a true belief/attitude. But it remains to to be seen whether it will serve Britain's long-term interests because our enemies will remain common.

[Finalapproach29er]

Is that a fact?

[TexasTransplant]

>>>>"The air force passed out bronze stars for munitions loader's for the stealth bombers, while they were in Missouri no less"<<<<

That doesn't pass the smell test, care to elaborate?

TT

[NZerFromHK]

I'm 100% with you. If they move to a French position whether they treat the US as just like an average foreign country (i.e. neither an ally/friend nor an enemy) they will regret this later on as a grave mistake. The Islamic terrorists aren't just America's enemies - they are also theirs.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I remember reading of it during Bubba Clinton's tenure for the B2 Serbian gambit. The Air Force passing out the bronze stars created quite a stink with combat types.

Excerpted: (see link)

"The issue of Bronze Stars for U.S. troops who took part in the airstrikes on Yugoslavia last year arose after Stars and Stripes recently reviewed 185 Air Force citations and found that only 6 percent went to personnel who actually served in the combat zone. The majority of those awards were given to senior officers who served in such places as Italy, England, Spain and even as far away from the Balkan war zone as Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., from which B-2 bombers were launched for missions over Yugoslavia."


http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=5983&archive=true

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I remember reading of it during Bubba Clinton's tenure for the B2 Serbian gambit. The Air Force passing out the bronze stars created quite a stink with combat types.

Excerpted: (see link)

"The issue of Bronze Stars for U.S. troops who took part in the airstrikes on Yugoslavia last year arose after Stars and Stripes recently reviewed 185 Air Force citations and found that only 6 percent went to personnel who actually served in the combat zone. The majority of those awards were given to senior officers who served in such places as Italy, England, Spain and even as far away from the Balkan war zone as Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., from which B-2 bombers were launched for missions over Yugoslavia."


http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=5983&archive=true



78 posted on 04/19/2006 12:38:49 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
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[Winniesboy]

I didn't say they were not brave but the Brits are, at best, very reluctant allies.

Isn't that simply the nature of alliances? Since no two nations ever have exactly identical interests, all alliances are inevitably to a greater or lesser extent reluctant.