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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.
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Maybe. Or maybe he was just commenting on something someone told him at the Pentagon. Just because he heard it at the Pentagon, doesn't mean it's true. There are a lot of people who work at the Pentagon; I am guessing some of the totally crazy.
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Originally Posted by DWB
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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So you are saying that because the US was "tied down" in Afghanistan and Iraq we were... Unable to do anything else? What was the entire Pacific Fleet doing during this time? And what forces did we have in Europe? Korea?