Reply #105: You thought like Caesar.... [View All]

of course General Clark was not "just a General". My goodness!

General Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and in charge of the European Command.

Prior, he was in charge of the Southern Command.

General Clark is an renown world expert on National Security...didn't you know????

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http://www.mysan.de/international/article3122.html
In September 2004 Wesley Clark and Rodney Slater joined
James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA) as Vice Chairmen and Senior
Advisors a welcome reception was held in Washington, D.C. last
month. They will serve James Lee Witt Associates in addition to
maintaining their current positions at Wesley K. Clark &
Associates and Patton Boggs, respectively. General Clark will focus advising JLWA on their domestic and international security practice and Secretary Slater will advise JLWA on issues regarding transportation and critical infrastructure work.
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Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who as the military's top European commander helped supervise NATO's efforts to respond to a 1999 earthquake in Turkey, said the United States has unique military capabilities in reconnaissance and logistics management that can be useful in the current crisis. He urged Bush to take a higher profile. “Natural disasters happen,” Clark said. “One of the things people look for is a strong response that illustrates America's humanitarian values.”
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=2C5CC620-...
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Arab reform: a pair of very different faces
By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Monday, December 13, 2004
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&c...
"Among the speakers are former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Dubai Crown Prince and U.A.E. Defense Minister General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Syrian Expatriates Minister Buthaina Shaaban, Hanan Ashrawi from Palestine, U.S. scholar Fouad Ajami, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri, the foreign ministers of Iraq and Qatar, the prime ministers of Libya and Malaysia...?
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The rich but frustrating debate on Arab reform
By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Thursday, December 16, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/66qz6

Analysis
DUBAI: The three-day Arab Strategy Forum that brought to Dubai dozens of the finest minds in the Arab world, the USA, Europe and Asia this week to help chart the Arab region's route to modernity and prosperity was extraordinary in every respect. It was extraordinarily rich in analyzing the difficult condition of the Arab world, and in identifying the required policy changes to move toward a better future. And it was also extraordinarily rich in frustration - because the obvious consensus on what this region needs to do to move to a stable and wealthy future for all its citizens was matched by a more formidable scratching of heads over why reform policies have not been significantly adopted in any Arab country.

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The host, U.A.E. Defense Minister and Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, kicked off the event with the shortest but most striking list of the forum, the two options before Arab leaders: either the leaders change their policies and deal with their people more justly, or the leaders will be changed. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton then followed with his six-point list of what countries need to do to succeed - and the floodgates of list-making were opened.

*The Forum heard several lists of the many security threats plaguing the Arab world, from knowledgeable people such as former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, Syrian Expatriates Minister Buthaina Shaaban, and International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohammed al-Baradei. The threats included terrorism, corruption, stagnation, Israel, the U.S., Iran, global irrelevance......
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