Wesley Clark

Just listened to a Charlie Rose interview with General Wesley Clark. The main thing that I got from it was his perception that the Bush administration had stood the Clinton policy on its head. Clinton wanted talk first. If that didn't work, build a coalition. If that didn't work, and only as a last resort, go it alone. Bush wanted war first, and he wanted to go it alone. Then he sought to build a coalition. Then he wanted to talk. The latter doesn't work very well. Clark said that while soldiers in the war have gained from their experience, they have also been stretched too thin, and have lost many good people... more to attrition than to casualties.