ArVa wrote in message
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"Chad Irby" a écrit dans le message de
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"...most expeditionary army in Europe." That's not saying much,
especially since it would take them six months to get any of that
army
overseas without American help.

!?

...and there are other Generals besides ones who grew up in France.

Sure... But if more Americans and French knew better the other
country, its
history, its culture and its political system, maybe we wouldn't
experience
the current situation...

"Continental sensibilities" means he says nice diplomatic things
about
the Europeans he has to work with on a regular basis.

It's a bit true but nevertheless a nice comment by an American
official is
so rare these days that it had to be underlined... :-)

If he were telling the truth, he'd be the *former* NATO Supreme
Commander...

And what would be such a truth? Hmm?
By the way, as you speak of former NATO commanders, here is what says
another one of them :

"if you really want allies, you got to listen to their opinions,
you've got
to take them seriously, you've got to work with their issues. Every
one of
our allied leaders is an elected leader, at least in Europe. And that
means
they have domestic politics and political factors at home and economic
factors at home that influence their opinions. And those have to be
respected just like we would expect them to respect us for our
political
system in the United States.
If we deal with our allies on a basis of respect, if we give them the
opportunity and the evidence and the arguments and the analysis that's
needed to help shape their public opinions, then we can expect them to
go
along with us." Wesley Clark.

I don't know if he has any real chance to be your next president, but
the
current administration would be inspired to take one or two of his
ideas in
condideration...

ArVa

Wesley Clarke?, now I know why you seem so out of touch. We're only
days away from his claim that Vietnamese snipers stalked him in the US
or the Republicans broke up his daughter's wedding. Which brings up
another point. Doesn't Kosovo prove the French can't cope with a
conflict larger than a soccer riot?

--

Scott
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"Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded
reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq,
there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through
the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and
destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm