The Bush beater - Is Wesley Clark the man who can stop GWB's reselection?

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The Bush beater
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1091064,00.html
Is Wesley C Clark the man who can stop George W Bush's re-election? He sets out his stall in Winning Modern Wars

Jason Burke
Sunday November 23, 2003
The Observer


Buy Winning Modern Wars at Amazon.co.uk
 Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire
by Wesley C Clark
Westview Press £18.99, pp208

Anti-Americanism, a prejudice prevalent in much of the world today, is as dangerous and misconceived as any of the more ignorant opinions expressed by President Bush or his 'neocon' cronies. No state or society is monolithic. All are systems that function despite, or perhaps because of, the contest between different interests within. 'America', however conceived, is no different, and those who speak of it in such consistently pejorative terms should read Wesley Clark's well-informed and intelligent book.
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Clark is one of the most incisive of those voices. The four-star general and Vietnam veteran appears, in recent weeks, to have become the Democrats' best hope of ousting the incumbent of the White House in the next presidential election. Winning Modern Wars, though he denies it in his introduction, is effectively Clark's manifesto.

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America, he says, risks winning individual battles, even campaigns, but losing the war and losing itself. His analysis, manifesto or otherwise, is accurate, timely and important.

[billbuckhead]

1. This is the intellectual groundwork to beat Bush over the war on terror.

This is also the intellectual groundwork to beat the other 2004 Dems.

[FrenchieCat]

2. of course.....

that's why he's running. he politely waited......and saw that no one else was going to be able to do the job....so he got in....

He will beat Bush....is all I can say!


Got a Clark fix today on C-span...and get 3 Clark fixes tommorrow
Face the nation tomorrow, Wolf Blitzer and C-Span again...don't forget Clarkies....

When are the MSnbc debates?

[eileen_d]

3. I'm reading this book now

The man is sure intelligent.

[FrenchieCat]

4. and we desperately need

some brains in that White House....get us back on the right track. The world is just hoping that we'll do the right thing. Ironic how we've got the responsibility in this election of the welfare of the entire world. These are pretty critical times!

[Jerseycoa]

6. See Also

Winning Modern Wars Reviewed by Frances FitzGerald in The Nation

In Clark's view, American power resides to a large degree in the "virtual empire" the United States constructed after World War II: that is, among other things, its network of economic and security arrangements, the leverage it had in international institutions and treaty regimes, plus the shared values and reservoir of trust, or "soft power," that permitted past Presidents to lead by persuasion. Clark's forceful book warns that the Bush Administration is undermining this virtual empire and at the same time imperiling the "hard power" Bush counts upon, the power of America's economy and armed forces.

Winning Modern Wars by Wesley K. Clark at Amazon.com

[DrFunkenstein]

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The Bush Beater

Is Wesley C Clark the man who can stop George W Bush's re-election?
He sets out his stall in Winning Modern Wars

Anti-Americanism, a prejudice prevalent in much of the world today, is as dangerous and misconceived as any of the more ignorant opinions expressed by President Bush or his 'neocon' cronies. No state or society is monolithic. All are systems that function despite, or perhaps because of, the contest between different interests within. 'America', however conceived, is no different, and those who speak of it in such consistently pejorative terms should read Wesley Clark's well-informed and intelligent book.

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Clark is one of the most incisive of those voices. The four-star general and Vietnam veteran appears, in recent weeks, to have become the Democrats' best hope of ousting the incumbent of the White House in the next presidential election. Winning Modern Wars, though he denies it in his introduction, is effectively Clark's manifesto.

snip
America, he says, risks winning individual battles, even campaigns, but losing the war and losing itself. His analysis, manifesto or otherwise, is accurate, timely and important.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1091064,00.html

Buy Winning Modern Wars at www.Amazon.co.uk