But they let this insulting puke speak?
"Gates urges Europe to bolster NATO capability" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | February 24, 2010
WASHINGTON - Europeans’ aversion to military force is limiting NATO’s ability to fight wars effectively, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday.
Oh, HOW HORRIBLE, huh, Bob?
LESS DEAD PEOPLE so bad or just LOSING on the BATTLEFIELD?
I suspect the later, don't you, readers?
In remarks to a forum on rewriting the basic mission plan for the NATO alliance, Gates called for far-reaching changes in an organization that was created 61 years ago as a political and military bulwark against the former Soviet Union and its Red Army.
Yeah, I was wondering WhyTF it has NOT BEEN DISBANDED and what the hell are they doing in LAND-LOCKED, CENTRAL-ASIAN AFGHANISTAN?!!!
Related: The NATO Architects of the NWO
Makes sense now.
The early successes of NATO in averting post-World War II eruptions of European conflict have led to a new set of concerns, Gates said.
Yeah, when you are a MILITARY EMPIRE whose rule will COLLAPSE without justifications for wars that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
Especially with all the money to be made in armament $ale$!.
“The demilitarization of Europe - where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st,’’ he told an audience filled with uniformed military officers from many of NATO’s 28 member countries.
The danger, he added, is that potential adversaries may view NATO as a paper tiger.
Other than the nuke bombs in the back, they and we are.
Haven't these self-justifying failures of wars that require occupation proved that?
We can't clean up a few hundred Taliban with tens of thousands of troops; how the hell we going to not groan, creak, and explode with ANY EXPANSION ANYWHERE, dear readers?
But that is what S*** HEADS like Gatesy here are promising!
LECTURING YOU on it, Europeans!
Yeah, God save your souls that you are AGAINST WAR!
“Not only can real or perceived weakness be a temptation to miscalculation and aggression, but, on a more basic level, the resulting funding and capability shortfalls make it difficult to operate and fight together to confront shared threats,’’ Gates said....
This was a stand-up comedy sketch, right?
I mean, he said that laughing, right?
The LYING, BANKRUPT AmeriKan War Secretary LECTURING about CREDIBILITY and COSTS?
The European representatives WALKED OUT like they would on that little Iranian fellow, right?
Right?
“For many years, for example, we have been aware that NATO needs more cargo aircraft and more helicopters of all types, and yet we still don’t have these capabilities,’’ he said. “And their absence is directly impacting operations in Afghanistan. Similarly, NATO requires more aerial refueling tankers and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms for immediate use on the battlefield.’’
In Prague, Michal Thim of the Association for International Affairs, an independent Czech think tank, said Gates’s comments were not surprising.
“The United States have been concerned about the defense policies of European allies for a long time,’’ Thim said. He interpreted Gates’s remarks as indicating the Obama administration is losing patience with Europe.
Oh, THERE is your CHANGE, Europeans!!!!
Yup, the NEW GUY is JUST as IMPATIENT as the OLD GUY!
Gates welcomed the in-depth effort by NATO to revise and update what it calls its “strategic concept,’’ or its basic mission document. He stressed that it must be more than a paper exercise, given the real-world conflicts NATO is fighting today - with about 120,000 troops in Afghanistan and the prospect of staying there for years to come.
Okay, so WHEN is the NEXT FALSE FLAG, CIA Bob, and SO MUCH for SURGE and WITHDRAWAL, 'eh, Obomber!
A group of specialists led by Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, is working to update NATO’s strategic concept.
Oh, the globalist servant (and Jew) that said starving sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi kids over lies was worth it?
That Maddy Albright?
See: The War Criminal Women of Wellesley
The role model(?) for women here in AmeriKa.
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Oh, yeah, and about that little war going on in Afghanistan and all that peace talk and leaving poop:
"Plans are laid for new Afghan offensive" by New York Times | March 9, 2010
I sure as hell am offended.
We were led to believe surge and out.
LIED TO AGAIN, 'eh, Americans?
Must be used to it by now.
That's why we reject everything this government and agenda-pushing MSM spread.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met here yesterday with President Hamid Karzai and General Stanley A. McChrystal to review plans for a major US-led offensive in the city of Kandahar, the spiritual heart and birthplace of the Taliban, an operation McChrystal indicated could get underway this summer.
Great, more innocent dead people killed over a damnable lie.
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: The Next Afghanistan Offensive
Must have finally dried.
McChrystal, the top NATO and US commander in Afghanistan, declined to be more specific, but told reporters at a briefing in Kabul that it would be several more months before US, coalition, and Afghan forces were at full strength around Kandahar, a city of 900,000 and the capital of Kandahar province.
You have been warned, world.
So much for Obomber.
I lost faith in him quicker than Bush, and I was unhappy when Bush "won" in 2000.
When you giving back that worthless Nobel award, 'bomber?
The general said that while “Kandahar has not been under Taliban control, it’s been under a menacing Taliban presence, particularly in the districts around it.’’
He said he had already sent more troops to those districts and more would be on the way.
So the surge has already begun, but let's wait a few months to roll it out for propaganda purposes?
By early summer, he said, “I think we’ll have enough Afghan forces,’’ adding that “our forces will be significantly increased around there.’’
At this point, only 6,000 of the 30,000 extra US troops ordered by President Obama have arrived.
Oh, so we are in slow motion on this thing.
And we are escalating not drawing down.
Endless war.
“I would say it is very early yet and people still need to understand there is some very hard fighting and very hard days ahead,’’ Gates said.
Will the BG report it to us over here in New England, that's the question.
Or will they hide and conceal, as is their pattern.
McChrystal said the Kandahar offensive would be different from a recent American-led campaign to largely rout the Taliban from Marja, a smaller town in Helmand Province. While the Marja offensive began with a burst of forces into the area in the middle of the night, he said that the Kandahar offensive would unfold more slowly.
You know, like it IS NOW as I TYPE!
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All right, I've had enough of standing here. Next stop.
