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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (195036)8/3/2004 7:40:27 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576155
 
My point was They acted under the authority of, and where ordered in to the combat by Clinton.

The direct commander isn't really relevant to that point. I'm not sure why you brought it up, esp. with a comment like "You are wearing your patriotism on your sleeve.", but I will deal with this new topic anyway.

What is it about this detail that you find so hard to understand, or accept. You pick the best guy to command NATO forces, of Coalition forces, or UN forces. Who gives a sh-t if it's an American or Mexican or an Algerian?

If its an American then he is under the American chain of command and resposnible to American political control. If the other commander is the member of an allied military that has a long history of working with the US, shares the same objective in the current conflict, and who's country country is providing forces for the conflict then I may not have any problem. IF a NATO commander is not an American but is someone else who shares the same objective for that command and the NATO commander is very competent then I don't have a problem. If a commander in South Korea is a very compitent South Korean, when they provide the vast majority of forces and its their country that is under threat then I don't have a problem.

I guess I can go for the idea of "picking the best guy" but "picking the best guy" is not simply picking the person with the most tactical or strategic skill.

Tim
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