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Shemp Howard

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75. The on-scene British general begs to differ.

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 02:37 PM

Nov 2014

From Wikipedia:

General Clark then issued an order for the NATO troops to attack and "overpower" the armed Russian troops, but Captain James Blunt leading the British troops questioned this order and was supported in this decision by General Mike Jackson, the British commander of the Kosovo Force. Jackson refused to sanction the attack, reportedly saying "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you".

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Was Gen. Jackson overreacting here? Maybe. But do you think Russia would have just sat back and done nothing if Russian troops were deliberately attacked?

Provocations (like the one Clark so casually ordered) often escalate. That's how WW I started. Why take that risk?

Clark has no business being in any position where a cool head is needed.

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