Posted on 07/20/2024 11:10:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) stated that the Biden administration has been “micromanaging at the political level” when it comes to combating the Houthis and this micromanaging, pinprick strategy is like the strategy that “cost us in Vietnam under the Johnson and Kennedy administration[s].”
Host Tom Basile asked, “Whenever I hear [about] a strike from the Houthis, I keep on thinking of Gulliver being pestered by these Lilliputians. Why aren’t we taking these people out and why aren’t the Israelis doing it or why aren’t we doing it in conjunction with them as they continue to sort of flex their muscles, now hitting land-based targets in Israel?”
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Clark was a micromanaged, so I guess he would know
Was a micromanager.
Autocorrect got me
Westley Clark the metrosexual. What will they come up with next?
He belongs in the dustbin with Scott Ritter.
The fish rots from the head. The overarching problem was Robert “Strange” McNamara’s policy of “Flexible Response.”
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark nearly got us into WWIII because he wanted some of us in Bosnia to take Pristina airport from the Russians. He gave tanks for and probably organized the raid on Waco. A truly duplicitious person.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/09/17/wesley-clark-and-waco/
Whoever pulls Biden’s puppet strings knows war in Yemen would cost him the election. Even many hawks know another war half way around the world is something the American people don’t want. If Europe and the Middle East, especially Egypt, KSA, Israel, UAE, etc, are not willing to shed their blood and treasure, why should we? There has to be something between being the world’s policeman and allowing a terrorist country to stop global commerce. Biden’s attempt at forming a coalition, “Operation Prosperity Guardian” was a complete failure. Biden’s foreign policy has been a disaster. In 6 months, hopefully we will have a new President who will do better.
*resident Bidet is pro-iran, pro-houthi, pro-ham-ass, pro-hezbollah, pro-Jew-Killing.
“Margaret Thatcher once quipped you could track the decline of the British Empire with the invention and use of the telephone. I guess she was implying Heretofore, commanders and viceroys in the field ran their territories free of meddling by the home office. Pretty much the same in WWII except for the onsight meddling later in the game as they began deciding the political ending for the war in Europe. By the time of Korea, we had the first instance of missions being run out of the White House which was more than expanded under Johnson in Vietnam. The results were disasterous.”
My snarky thought: Politicians and bureaucrats MUST meddle to justify
their existence. Maybe we’d be better off cutting all communications
into combat theatres until the “last man standing” walks out and
calls home.
All the military-industrial complex figures are suddenly switching to Team Trump. I hope he has a surprise waiting for them after he wins.
"Interviews with a wide variety of current and retired military officials reveal that Clark was disliked by only three groups: Those whom ranked above him in the chain of command whom he ignored, his peers at the same rank whom he lied to, and those serving beneath him whom he micromanaged. Other than that, everyone liked him."
I recognized in my thirty plus years of working in companies that unqualified managers micromanaged into failure. Competent managers select competent people and then give them freedom to work. Trust me that if anyone in a company exhibited the symptoms Biden has on display, they’d have been dismissed. There was one exception where the director of purchasing was so far gone, he couldn’t find his way from the front door, where his wife dropped him off, to his office, a distance of thirty feet. But he’d been friends with the president for decades and couldn’t be fired. His meddling cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we all breathed a sigh of relief when he died. Biden has so damaged even his friends and supporters that when he dies, they’ll all sigh with relief and say, “Thankyou Gaia.”
Weasley Clark. Just another Clinton regime moron. He just missed Clinton at Oxford, having gotten his degree in August 1968, while Clinton entered the school in October of that same year.
Rush always called Clark “Ashley Wilkes’’.
But, Wesley Clark “might be” right. This one time.
The Navy's mission is defending shipping from Houthi attacks, not to hunt down and destroy them. Clark (Army) is saying the Navy (not Army) is failing at a mission they were never given and does not have the ability to achieve on its own. Carrier aviation and ship launched cruise missiles will not take out the Houthis alone.
Clark's air operations in Kosovo worked because NATO was using land-based aircraft and Serbia was landlocked by US and NATO friendly countries, largely cutting it off from outside aid. The Houthis do not have these limitations, they have seaports and are backed by Iran (sea lanes are Navy, not Army).
To follow through on what Clark says, would mean escalating the conflict. No one wants that, not Democrats or Republicans, not Biden, and not Trump. Clark is trying to pander to MAGA supporters. Like all his forays into politics, he is failing at it.
Bad headline. Wesley Clark correctly said “the Biden administration”. Everyone knows Biden is not micromanaging anything.
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