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Winnipeg Free Press January 30, 2010 CLINTON, THE WARRIOR PRESIDENT As a commander-in-chief, he has been vastly underestimated By Richard Sale [Excerpts] -According to Alan Greenspan, Clinton was one of the most intelligent of American presidents, ranking with Reagan and Nixon. -[H]e wanted to go to war against North Korea but was dissuaded from it, and he had demanded all-out war with Iran after the terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers facility in Saudi Arabia. Further, Clinton used force in Bosnia, first by means of Croatian proxies, and then by NATO bombing raids....[H]e conducted an incessant air war against Iraq, dropping 2,000 bombs that reduced to a miserable shambles Saddam Hussein's entire air defence network. -As early as 1994, Clinton assigned the CIA to develop a plan to topple Serbian [president] Slobodan Milosevic from power. This covert operation turned [Milosevic] out of power in the Serb elections of 2000 and was followed in 2001 by a SEAL team that kidnapped Milosevic and sent him to The Hague, the first head of state to be arrested as a war criminal. (This SEAL operation was carried out by the Bush team, but it was a Clinton plan.) -No president after FDR except Eisenhower shared such a love of artifice and covert manoeuvre as did Clinton. He resolved to wage war by - in historian Andrew J. Bacevich's words - "decoupling the people from military affairs." -In the case of NATO, he used the alliance to rethink the European chessboard, changing...to a force able to impose stability...not only in Europe, but in the Middle East and Central Asia. George W. Bush's invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 is due to Clinton's vision of NATO. -Throughout the Kosovo conflict, Clinton ensured that America was by far the major player in the NATO alliance, and he kept the coalition from paralyzing allied target selection by using American planes not subject to NATO's jurisdiction. *Richard Sale, the author of Clinton's Secret Wars (St. Martin's Press), is a historian and award-winning journalist covering intelligence and foreign policy. He wrote this for the Fredericksburg, Va., Free Lance-Star. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
