Wesley Clark: Showboating Egotist or Devious Political Operator?
Nearly seven years ago to the day, Christopher Caldwell shared his opinions of Wesley Clark and Clark’s “score-settling and ass-covering” book Waging Modern War in Slate Magazine.
It’s dressed up as the autobiography of a war hero. It has…250 pages on the Kosovo campaign of 1999, which Clark led militarily, in his role as Supreme Allied Commander—Europe (SACEUR), and in which his plans to escalate the war through personnel-killing Apache helicopters and 200,000 American ground troops were (thank God) consistently rebuffed by Washington.
Hmm. Wonder if sitting your fanny in a leather bound chair out of harms way qualifies you to be President more than “riding around” in a fighter jet?
“Riding around”? What a complete and utter A-hole this guy is to denigrate the service of any fighter pilot like that!
...(Clark’s) methods led him into a propagandistic press strategy that was transparent to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the war. And they hurt him in U.S. military circles, where he was considered a showboating egotist and a devious political operator.
The more things change the more they stay the same, eh?
So, Chris…what do you really think?
As you may perhaps glean, I was not (to put it mildly) a big fan of the Kosovo operation in the first place, and I think Clark was one of its least honorable and most self-serving participants.
Showboating egotist, devious political operator, and surrogate attack dog for Barack Obama! Heh.
Hat tip The Corner
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
