Posted on 03/17/2007 9:22:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The troop surge in Iraq is also a signal to Iranbut stopping Tehrans nukes for good will require a different kind of leverage.
The world seems headed for a showdown in the Middle East within the next two years over the issue of Iranian nuclear capacity. The stakes are high. On the one hand, there is the emergence of a new nuclear power, whose rhetoric and revolutionary record seem to pose an existential threat to Israel and challenge centuries of Sunni dominance of Islam. On the other hand, there is an explosive set of potential military actions and economic repercussions, which could begin with a sustained air and naval campaign and end with massive economic and political upheavals. The environment is emotionally charged, too, with a triumphalist Iranian government, a failing U.S. military intervention in Iraq, a weakened U.S. president, and severe tensions between Sunni and Shia sects throughout Islam. Heading into a presidential electionand the end of the Bush administrationthe ramifications of all this make Democrats, and anyone else seriously forecasting global trends and economic forces, more than a little concerned. Major news magazines like Newsweek and the Economist have featured Iran as the next major crisis.
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Try to imagine Wesley Clark as our next Secretary of Defense.
Please, I just ate! Corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and soda bread cooked by my Irish fiance...
Perhaps he got 4th star when he was in charge at Waco under Gen. Reno
I have a corned beef dinner waiting for me in the microwave (home-cooked by hubby). I won't say another word. ;)
And Dennis Kucinich as "Secretary of Peace!"
We've been waiting for Ashley Wilkes to weigh in on Iran.
It was exactly because of Clinton.
He was appointed Commander of NATO.
He then was relieved of command and forced to retire because he disobeyed orders. Others who disobeyed orders were courtmartialed, he wasn't because of Clinton.
Please tell us more, I'm not fully up-to-speed on General Clark's background.
U spellt weezelly cluck rong !!...;0)
Did this guy fall on his head somewhere? Whatever happened to him in NATO?
In Waging Modern War, General Clark wrote about his fury upon learning that Russian peacekeepers had entered the airport at Pristina, Kosovo, before British or American forces. In the article "The guy who almost started World War III," (Aug. 3, 1999), The Guardian (U.K.) wrote, "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the West's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport, threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War."
"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark...
I am sure you can find a lot about him.
It isn't Politically Correct to point out that he was relieved of command, but I am sure you can find out why if you search.
I do not know the details off the top of my head, but it has something to do with the Bosnian thing, which was done by NATO.
I would have to search, so it is "an excersize left to the students."
Before Clark ran for the nomination he was asked by Crissy Matthews on his show why he was relieved of command, Clark about had a heart attack. He finally said he just retired early. It was hilarious.
Lets talk to Hitler first
Wikipedia can be Left Wing.
In 1994 during the Bosnian War when Clark was still a 3 star general he met with one of the Bosnian Commanders/War Criminals against State Department orders. He was sent there to represent the Joint Chiefs and was ordered not to meet with anyone suspected of war crimes. The man he met with was Ratko Mladic, suspected of various war crimes and current fugitive of the UN.
Weasly needs to get his grits reordered in some D.C. Restaurant bathroom..
Wesley Clark is a two faced liar.
No point in reading a word he says.
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