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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 06:48 AM
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General Clark spoke at UCLA recently, and a friend summarized:
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 07:05 AM
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1. General Clark responds to a question about Afgh:
Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 07:06 AM by elleng
'Let’s say you put the entire United States Army over there… What would they do? I mean, we don’t speak Pashto, or Dari… I mean we can’t tell friend from foe… We’re waving at ‘em and… they’re probably giving us the finger… and we don’t even know it." <…>

"I think the President is really looking hard at this… And he should."

If you were going to ask me for a prediction as to what he WILL do, I’d say he’ll probably put more troops in.<…> And hope for the best.

But if you were going to ask me what I’d like to see... well, I’d like to find a way out of there... as rapidly as possible.'

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