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Remember Wes Clark’s “Ross Perot-crazy” idea that Iraq was only the first step in a Bush White House plan to take out a series of unfriendly regimes? Tony Blair says that was exactly the plan, at least in Cheney’s mind.
Archive for the ‘Wesley Clark’ Category
December 23rd, 2008
Category: Wesley Clark
Really. Maybe this is a stretch, but maybe it is connecting the dots. The chatter has now made it to Newsweek that Obama is considering appointing William White, chief operating officer of Manhattan’s Intrepid Museum Foundation, as the next Secretary of the Navy. White is openly gay, so placing him in the Navy Secretary’s job [...]
December 23rd, 2008
Category: Wesley Clark
Wes Clark’s disappearance might say something a little disturbing about the military brass.
July 2nd, 2008
As the McCain-Clark dustup continues into its fourth day (mostly courtesy of McCain), it seems to me that there is one interesting way in which it reveals assumptions about Presidential qualifications. One could make a fairly plausible point about how being a POW would prepare someone for the Presidency: in a word, courage. It was [...]
June 30th, 2008
Category: John McCain, Wesley Clark
Mark and Jonathan are entirely right about Wes Clark and John McCain. Clark’s criticism was not of the honor or veracity of McCain’s service record but of its relevance to his qualifications to be president. Clark in fact said McCain as a POW was a hero to him and millions of others.
On Capitol Hill, I can’t think of a lasting contribution McCain has made to defense or national security policy (other than the POW-MIA issue and normalization of relations with Vietnam), despite his powerful position. I invite readers to provide examples that I have missed.
June 30th, 2008
Category: Wesley Clark
As Talleyrand might say, the Obama campaign’s disavowal of Clark’s comments on McCain is worse than a crime: it’s a blunder. Josh sums it up well, although I think that there is a broader point, which Josh has made at other times. This is an example of what he calls “bitch-slap” politics: can a candidate [...]
August 8th, 2007
Category: Terrorism and its control, Wesley Clark
Wes Clark and Kal Raustiala argue that treatment as “unlawful combatants” is better than the terrorists deserve.
February 5th, 2006
Category: Wesley Clark
Can we use our presence as leverage to make the Shi’a coalition ruling Iraq govern on a national, rather than an ethnic and sectarian, basis?
September 22nd, 2005
Category: Wesley Clark
Wes Clark focuses the minds of the “Out of Iraq Caucus.”
