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I wouldnt vote him just because of the following incident. The poor decision there doesnt make me feel particulary safe with him in office. (I copied and pasted this from enigmous.com)
In 1999, while NATO forces occupied Kosovo, a Russian parachute brigade from Bosnia sent a reconnaissance team into Kosovo to secure Pristina airfield, which was critical to the NATO occupation of Kosovo. General Clark ordered his lieutenant, British General Sir Mike Jackson, to force the Russians off the airfield and resecure it. Clark said that this would be done by sending in British airborne troops, paratroopers, and the elite SAS. Jackson was appalled and refused to carry out the order. "I'm not going to be responsible for starting World War Three," Jackson told Clark.
Military expert David Hackworth, writing on this subject, said that "there's a time that a commander has to be insubordinate to do his job and his mission comes first and I'm certainly thankful that General Jackson stood tall and did the right thing." Hackworth pointed out that, at the time, Russia still had many ICBMs pointed at London and Washington and that there were still many "hardliners who would like nothing better [than to] press that little red button." Geoffrey Regan, in studying military blunders, said that if a fight broke out between NATO and Russian troops, "it is inconceivable that Russia's political leadership would have allowed her troops to be defeated and humiliated by the West." Regan considered Clark's decision "one of the least appropriate responses in military history."
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