But if they don't defeat him, he will defeat NATO.
No, no, no! That's old thinking. Kondrake has fallen into the conventional thinking trap that several of my ideological teammates here have. That withdrawal here and now crushes NATO.
But nothing could be further from the truth. NATO has the might to defeat any world aggressor. If we really wanted to win the war in Yugo, we could. Massive ground and air power, and if that failed, nuclear weapons.
But it is clear to the world that Kosovo was not so much a military failure, but a failure of judgment and decision making. Lack of goals, unpreparedness, hesitancy to use heavy force, informing the enemy of our attack tactics, ruling out bombing targets, and lack of refugee planning all signal errors by our CIC and state department.
When a new CIC is installed, respect for our decision making ability will resume. Respect for NATO's military might is still intact. |
