We wern't talking about Somalia, we were talking about Kosovo.Elheru Aran wrote:Excuse me? Perhaps you forget a certain incident in Modagishu involving Blackhawks and Rangers, and corpses being dragged through the streets...
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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill
Nope, Kosovo was not a UN-sanctioned campaign.Darth Wong wrote:Clinton had UN sanction to go in there (actually, more like "begging"), so if there was any distortion of the situation, it was the UN, not him.MKSheppard wrote:Erm,. it's funny how everyone forgets that little war in 1999.SyntaxVorlon wrote:Clinton never showed as much intention to mislead the public on policy/warfare issues. He didn't use the least amount of excuse to mobilize forces, push policy through congress. He was effective as a leader.
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