Reply #82: put it together and apply ...

[Pepperbelly]

any sort of reasoning you want to it.

Look at the BBC report that puts it in the very worst light on Clark that any of the accounts did and even there, you would see that Jackson's histrionics were exactly that. Clark did not order him to fire on the Russians but merely to beat them to the airport. That was all.

Beating them to the airport and attacking them are very different things as I hope you would admit. And with that admission, the silliness of the Jackson statement becomes very clear. Jackson and Clark both had very large egos, Jackson rankled under command from someone else, and took that opportunity to bow up.

He got his feelings hurt. And, in the heat of an argument, made a hyperbolic assertion, absurd on its face, as we all do in the heat of an argument.

Gee, read the actual sequence of events and then claim that counterpunch and the others are right and if you can do so without having to invent additional facts to justify Jackson's position, then please tell me how so I can reconsider my conclusion.