Wes Clark in The New York Times Magazine
By: Bernie Quigley
Published On: 7/1/2007 5:06:25 PM
An excellent interview in today's New York Times with Wesley Clark. Deborah Solomon asks General Clark direct if he plans to run for President.
"I haven't said I won't," he says. "I think about it every day."
Excellent and instructive that Solomon in this interview used Clark to countervail the absurd, ascending propaganda of Norman Podheretz, neocon founding father, and his upcoming book titled "World War IV." Podheretz's neocon generation is spent and they have left the Republican Party in shambles. They have destroyed the reputation of America abroad. They will be remembered as a gang of war criminals and cowards like Marshal Petain and Pierre Lavall, who sold out France to a poisoned ideology. As France looked to DeGaulle and Malraux to restore its life force, so we will need men and women with the character of Wesley Clark and Jim Webb to bring us back to ourselves.
Comments
Thanks, Bernie (vadem - 7/2/2007 9:39:13 PM)
It was a great, lighthearted article with some very serious issues discussed. Wes answers the questions without the spin.
Good article (Catzmaw - 7/3/2007 1:45:50 PM)
I was particularly impressed with Wes Clark's characterization of Al Qaeda as about 50,000 nasty folks with an unknown number of sympathizers, compared to the Soviet Union's 200 million people and thousands of nuclear missiles, tanks, guns, ships, etc. The neocon characterization of a few thousand millienalist whack jobs as a bigger threat to our country than the Soviet Union was is probably the most perplexing and false of all neocon positions. What is really amazing is how many Americans bought into this garbage and ceded their civil liberties to the Administration.