Watching General Clark handing Scarborough his ass on a platter was the best thing I've seen since General Clark handed Tom DeLay (in absentia) his ass on a platter.
Here's the transcript:
http://www.draftclark2004.com/news_detail.asp?nid=106Here's an excerpt from a heated exchange where Joe was trying to mock the Kosovo action:
SCARBOROUGH: But, General, under that test, we would have never gone into Kosovo, would we?
CLARK: We would have. In fact, we did everything we could to avoid having to use force in Kosovo.
SCARBOROUGH: But there was an imminent-was there.
CLARK: We had to only, under the imminent threat.
(CROSSTALK)
SCARBOROUGH: Hold on, General. Was.
CLARK: No, Joe.
SCARBOROUGH: . there an imminent threat in Kosovo?
CLARK: There was an imminent threat of regional destabilization caused by a fourth round of ethnic cleansing. And the Clinton administration chose not to go to war. It chose to solve a problem using diplomacy. It was only when the diplomacy utterly failed that it went to force, and then it used the minimum degree of force.
So I think Kosovo is an excellent example of what can be done. Today, Slobodan Milosevic is in The Hague. There are no American troops on the ground in Serbia. As far as I know, only one American soldier has died, a soldier who ran over a mine in Kosovo from that occupation. And it hasn`t cost tens of billions of dollars. Instead, it`s helped the Yugoslavs themselves develop democracy at home.