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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (9719)	3/23/2004 12:33:23 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81568

Re: I think the reasons for getting involved in Kosovo is not the same as for Iraq. Hence your statement quoted above does not hold true. Well, that's right.... The rationale of the Kosovo war was different: you were then fighting for Muslims and against fellow Christians (Orthodox Serbs) but then, perhaps that's why General Wesley Clark was refused his pet airborne storming of Kosovo/Serbia --do you remember that Gen. Clark asked the Pentagon to get Apache gunships involved? He had to scrap it... and then, do you remember how the arch-villain of the time, one Slobodan Milosevic, was arrested? We were shown a video of three men walking in the middle of the night before embarking a helicopter... and we were told that the guy in the middle was Milosevic! Can you imagine the outcry if Milosevic had been ridiculed like Saddam, with a 6-month beard? Anyway, that's actually not the main point: however different were the rationales for Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., the fact remains that the US military has somehow become a "Frankenstein creature" whose reach goes far beyond the strictly military issues.... Hence the POLITICAL careers open to former Generals (e.g. Powell and Clark). That's rather uncommon in Europe: apart from General De Gaulle, former military chiefs have never taken up politics in Europe.... Gus