- "Unknown to us at the time, the commander of
NATO was willing to launch an attack that could bring about the very
conflict
that his organization was founded to prevent: Armed conflict between East
and West."
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- Interesting details are emerging regarding a wartime
tiff between General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
and General Sir Michael Jackson of Britain, former commander of NATO
"peacekeeping"
forces in Kosovo.
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- The criminal NATO bombing campaign had finally ceased
and Serbian military forces had agreed to withdraw from the province of
Kosovo. General Jackson was preparing to move troops under his command
into Kosovo from their base in Macedonia. The operation was due to begin
on June 12th, 1999. However, unbeknownst to NATO, a Russian fly was about
to spoil the Allied ointment.
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- A token force of 200 Bosnian-based Russian troops entered
Kosovo from the north and occupied the Pristina airport, laying the
groundwork
for airborne reinforcements from Moscow - and red-faced embarrassment for
General Clark, Madeleine Albright and then-President, William Jefferson
Clinton.
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- Stunned and angered by the Muscovite maneuver, General
Clark requested and received clearance from the Pentagon to prevent the
Russians from solidifying their control of the Pristina airport. A mere
200 troops were nothing - a handful of ragtag Russians could be easily
overcome, but reinforcements from Moscow were totally unacceptable and
could drastically change the Kosovo equation. Clark was prepared to prevent
their arrival by any means necessary, even risking open war with
Russia.
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- Supreme Allied Commander Clark swiftly developed a plan
utilizing Apache helicopters and troops under the command of General
Jackson
to put paid to the Russianís insolent interference in the Allied
war. However, a minor problem occurred: General Sir Michael Jackson told
General Clark to bugger off!
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- As revealed in Clarkís new book Waging Modern
War, a heated exchange developed between the two NATO leaders. Meeting
in Jacksonís headquarters, located in an abandoned shoe factory
in Macedonia, Jackson flatly refused to obey Clark's orders. His mission
was twofold, said Jackson: peacekeeping and resettlement of Kosovarian
refugees, not waging war against Russian troops.
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- According to General Clark, General Jackson was
"angry
and upset", and the meeting was a "rapid-fire exchange and became
too personal."
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- More quotes:
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- Jackson: "Sir, I'm not taking any more orders from
Washington,"
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- Clark: "Mike, these aren't Washington's orders,
they're coming from me."
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- Jackson: "By whose authority?"
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- Clark: "By my authority as Supreme Allied Commander
Europe."
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- Jackson: "You don't have that
authority."
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- Clark: "I do have that authority. I have the
Secretary-General
behind me on this."
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- Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World War Three
for you."
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- Clark: "Mike, I'm not asking you to start World
War Three. I'm asking you to block the runways so that we don't have to
face an issue that could produce a crisis."
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- Jackson: "Sir, I'm a three-star general, you can't
give me orders like this."
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- Clark: "Mike, I'm a four-star general, and I can
tell you these things."
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- Stung by Jackson's mutiny, General Clark telephoned
General
Sir Charles Guthrie, Britainís Chief of Defense, who seconded his
subordinates refusal to risk war with the Russian bear. Up the diplomatic
ladder it went, eventually "resolved" by what was essentially
a slap to Clark's already embarrassed face; British and French troops were
put on so-called "high alert." No Apache helicopters or Allied
troops were deployed for a possibly disastrous confrontation with the
Russians
and Moscow now had a seat at the high stakes Serbian poker game.
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- And so it goes.
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- According to former Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright,
the United States has an "inescapable responsibility to build a
peaceful
world and to terminate the abominable injustices and conditions that still
plague civilization."
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- To accomplish this, the corrupt Clinton regime launched
a brutal 78 day bombing campaign followed by the subsequent occupation
of Kosovo; pitting mighty NATO against tiny Serbia, a country that posed
no threat whatsoever to the supposedly defensive alliance formed to protect
Europe from Russian tanks.
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- Unknown to us at the time, the commander of NATO was
willing to launch an attack that could bring about the very conflict that
his organization was founded to prevent: Armed conflict between East and
West.
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- Quoting Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop's
fable, A Wolf and a Fox:
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- "Tis with Sharpers as tis with Pikes, they prey
upon their own kind; and tis a pleasant Scene enough, when Thieves fall
out among themselves, to see the cutting of one Diamond with
another."
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- Pleasant scene? When carried out on a global scale, it's
anything but. We were fortunate that in this particular falling out General
Sir Michael Jackson had intestinal fortitude enough to tell Wesley Clark
to go to hell; our luck continued to hold when Jackson's superiors backed
him up.
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- But as any gambler can tell you, good luck eventually
runs out.
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