Why wasn't Weasley Clark indicted for war crimes?
Posted on 04/23/2022 2:24:13 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Defeated generals are sent home in disgrace, but it is most unusual to dismiss victorious ones.
Kosovo: NATO’s war against Serbia ended in victory. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, was very much the victorious general of that war.
So why was Clark fired? Officially, he wasn’t fired, but merely asked to step aside early.
Clark was caught.
The entire structure of the U.S. armed forces is built on: classic war, fought by Army infantry, Marines storming ashore, armored forces, artillery, attack helicopters, fighter-bombers that dive low to attack the enemy, as well as strike aircraft and bombers that operate more safely with stand-off weapons, and the entire panoply of naval forces of course.
To fight classic war, equipment and readiness are needed, but also willingness to accept casualties. Without that, the Pentagon with 13 Army and Marine divisions resembles a man with 13 luxurious cars and one gallon of gasoline.
The high priests of the military will carefully explain they only refuse to accept casualties in “operations other than war"--OOTW--or insignificant, not-worth-dying-example: Somali.
The entire “national interests” argument is mere rationalization
The truth: countries are willing to fight and accept casualties, will do so; when they no longer tolerate combat and its casualties, they invent clever new reasons to avoid them in virtually any circumstances except immediate self-defense.
Thus, any war the U.S. is likely to fight--unless Mexico attacks across the Rio Grande--will be classified as an OOTW not worth dying for, raising the huge question of what use it is to keep the present array of forces replete with ground units, attack helicopters and fighter bombers that are not usable in combat without some risk of casualties.
Clark exposed the gap between pretended “combat readiness” and the refusal to accept its real-life risks. He could hardly be forgiven for that.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Newsweek is reporting that the victor of Kosovo”
There’s a title to be proud of. /s
There was talk of making him Hillaries VP at one time? What does he say about Ukraine vs Russia war? Just curious.
“The destruction of Mariupol was not inevitable. With adequate armor and artillery, Ukraine could have attacked and broken the siege; with more airpower, Ukraine could have blown apart and run off the besieging Russian forces; with more detailed and timely U.S.-provided intelligence, “
And if Steiner’s detachment could make that counterattack As Der Fuhrer has ordered!
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
by Jim Bovard | Aug 20, 2019
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/americas-benevolent-bombing-of-serbia/
‘Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British professor Philip Hammond recently noted, the 78-day bombing campaign “was not a purely military operation: NATO also destroyed what it called ‘dual-use’ targets, such as factories, city bridges, and even the main television building in downtown Belgrade, in an attempt to terrorise the country into surrender.”
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‘Clinton remains a hero in Kosovo, and there is an 11-foot statue of him standing in the capitol, Pristina, on Bill Clinton Boulevard. A commentator in the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper noted that the statue showed Clinton “with a left hand raised, a typical gesture of a leader greeting the masses. In his right hand he is holding documents engraved with the date when NATO started the bombardment of Serbia, 24 March 1999.” ‘
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IIRC, Clark was the Fort Hood Commander that loaned the APC (tank) to Janet Reno to kill those people at Waco.
Why wasn't Weasley Clark indicted for war crimes?
I was asking about how Durham performs next month.
I’m hopeful.
But I am not optimistic.
L
And their “feared” air force has been a total non-player in this war. Putin’s biggest sin is that he’s shown the world just how weak and decayed his military is. I figured that was the unforgiveable sin as a Russian premier and the Politburo would’ve taken him out by now (put him in Siberia, eventually shoot him, and tell the world that his cancer finally got him).
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