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Only a month after the Kosovo war, Clark learned that the Pentagon would be relieving him of his NATO post in early 2000, three months before his European tour was to end. According to Samuel Berger, Clinton's National Security Adviser, the Pentagon had told Clinton that the military career of Air Force General Joseph Ralston was winding up. Ralston was then serving as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Clinton felt he owed him. Ralston, after all, had lost his bid to become the chairman in 1997, when a controversy erupted over an extramarital affair...
Clinton approved Ralston as a replacement for Clark, Berger says, thinking it would happen only when Clark's term ended, not three months early. But the news of Clinton's choice of Ralston quickly leaked, along with an explanation that Clark would have to leave the post early to accommodate the Pentagon's arcane promotion timetable. "We approved a succession, not an execution," Berger recalls. Clark has described that day as one of the two worst of his life, the other being the day he was wounded in Vietnam...
Winners in the first round of the postwar sweepstakes are likely to include many of the same companies that competed to rebuild Afghanistan: Fluor Daniel, Kellogg Brown & Root, Perini, Parsons, the Louis Berger Group and Bechtel. Costs are expected to be lower than in Afghanistan because Iraq has a functioning technocracy that should make design, engineering and construction much faster. "Given all the Iraqis have done to hide their weapons systems and to build palaces and bunkers for Saddam [Hussein]," says a major U.S. contractor, "they'll be able to provide a trained construction work force and sophisticated materials like...
...just makes the professor’s job a little bit easier,” Berger, who is a second-year master’s of public administration student, says...
Because the course is taught by Dennis Ross, who was a key player in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process, Berger says selecting students in past years had been a challenging task...