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2011-07-23 -Obits-

John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the JCS, Dies at 75

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-23 16:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...God go with you, Sir. He was a good man and a good officer.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-07-23 16:57|| 2011-07-23 16:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's the link?

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-23 17:05|| 2011-07-23 17:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Oops. Here you go.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-23 17:29|| 2011-07-23 17:29|| Front Page Top

#4 RIP Sir

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 17:34|| 2011-07-23 17:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Seems to have Progressive leanings. From AP:
Clinton pointed out that "Gen. Shali" made the recommendations that sent U.S. troops into harm's way in Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, the Persian Gulf and a host of other world hotspots that had proliferated since the end of the Cold War....Shalikashvili said American military and civilian authorities need to cooperate more when they decide to get involved in such trouble spots, because so much of what the military is asked to do involves humanitarian or peacekeeping operations. For example, he said, the military might need assistance from the Justice Department to help set up police forces, or advice from the State Department on economic aid. "We know the agencies, but who is responsible for coordinating it, bringing it all in at the right time?" he said. "Haiti, Bosnia, Rwanda, even Somalia, showed us these things go forward from the first day, and there is no coordinator."...Shalikashvili was head of the Joint Chiefs when the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military was adopted. He had argued that allowing homosexuals to serve openly would hurt troop morale and undermine the cohesion of combat units. Years later, though, he said that he changed his mind on the issue after meeting with gay servicemen...Earlier in his career, under the first President George Bush, Shalikashvili served as NATO's supreme allied commander and also commander in chief of all U.S. armed forces in Europe. At the end of the first Gulf War, he was in charge of the Kurdish relief operation in Iraq. In recent months Shalikashvili served on a senior military advisory group to the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, as did another former NATO commander, Gen. Wesley Clark...Shortly after Shalikashvili was tabbed by Clinton, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said documents it found indicated the general's late father, Dimitri Shalikashvili, collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The center said it found the elder Shalikashvili's unpublished writings in the archives of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/23/former-joint-chiefs-staff-john-shalikashvili-dies/#ixzz1SyCDNj6I

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-07-23 18:29|| 2011-07-23 18:29|| Front Page Top

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