Three weeks before standing down as Pentagon head and retiring from decades at the heart of the US security establishment, Gates used a 20-minute valedictory speech in Brussels to read the riot act to a stunned elite audience of European officers, diplomats, and officials.
Nato had degenerated into a "two-tiered" alliance of those willing to wage war and those only interested in "talking" and peacekeeping, he fumed in his bluntest warning to the Europeans in nearly five years as the Pentagon head.
Washington's waning commitment to European security could spell the death of the alliance, he said. The speech was laced with exasperation with and contempt for European defence spending cuts, inefficiencies, and botched planning. Full Details.
He sees something that we do not see.
ReplyDeleteHe was also an analyst that intentionally over estimated the power, strength, fear of the U.S.S.R. in order to feed the MIC beast.
Now it is --- we can not and should not leave Iraq, or Afghanistan.
Just what reality zone are they in.
I think they are in the TWILIGHT ZONE. LOL
They moved over into the Twilight Zone some time ago. As I recall, the intro to the TV programme said it was a world of 'shadow and imagination'.
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