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Originally Posted by DWB
Yea... General Clark, who was probably the most powerful military commander in the world while he was serving, is probably just trying to sell books and made shit up. Because there is nothing else in his boring life he could have written about.
If this came from Alex Jones, I'd agree with you.
And considering NO ONE expected Iraq and Afghanistan to last as long as they did, it is very plausible they extended their time line. There is only so much money and military might, they can only do so much at once. Syria is up next. I guess we'll have to wait and see about the others. However, Iraq and Libya are done. France mostly did Libya, but the US helped arm the rebels. They are already talking about sending some troops to Somalia. So that will be 4 of 7. Only 3 more to go after Syria and Somalia, it just took longer than 5 years, which would be expected given the state of the other two drawn out wars and financial melt down. Had Iraq and Afghanistan went quick and smooth the way they thought it was going to go, they would have already moved on.
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why anyone would trust him just because he said it is beyond me. he's more trustworthy than other military? because he didn't keep the *secret*? instead revealing this chat in a book he was pitching.
wesley clark was a political candidate and a book writer as well as being top military and i'm just supposed to go along with an anecdotal story about a hallway chitty chat outlining formal war policy that is embraced by 2 presidents from different parties and is still front & center plan 12 years later.
no, i'm not going to just buy that line.
moreover-
no one is talking about sending troops to somalia or even bombing it
no one is talking about attacking/bombing/sending troops to lebanon
no one is talking about attacking/bombing/sending troops to the sudan