Outspoken Retired Generals and Civilian Control, Redux
Kevin Drum, reflecting on the recent spate of retired generals speaking out both both for and against Donald Rumsfeld’s being replaced as SECDEF, remarks, “Regardless of whether or not we agree with...
View ArticleWesley Clark Signals 2008 Presidential Bid
It looks like Wesley Clark is running again for president. Wesley Clark said Tuesday he wants to avoid waiting too late to make a decision on whether to run for president — a mistake he made in his...
View ArticleEvan Bayh Not Running for President
Evan Bayh is joining the increasingly long line of touted Democratic candidates who have bowed out of the 2008 race for the White House. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek the Democratic nomination...
View ArticleTerrorists as Criminals Rather than Soldiers
Retired General Wesley Clark and UCLA law professor Kal Raustiala have an op-ed in today’s NYT arguing that the Bush administration policy of treating terrorists as “unlawful combatants” rather than...
View ArticleFred Thompson This Year’s Wesley Clark?
Publius draws some parallels between the Fred Thompson’s current campaign and Wesley Clark’s ill-fated 2004 effort. The Clark and Thompson campaigns have eerily similar pre-histories. Because the party...
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McCain Making Kerry Mistake on Vietnam?
Pat Lang, a retired Green Beret colonel, is somewhat bemused at how much is being made of John McCain’s military experience. John McCain is an admirable man. There are many such who wore the uniform...
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Sam Nunn Joins Veepstakes
In the long months between now and the conventions, one recurring theme we’ll see in the press and the punditocracy is speculation of who Barack Obama and John McCain will chose as running mates. None...
View ArticleWes Clark on McCain’s Military Experience
General Wesley Clark is trying to argue that John McCain’s military experience is irrelevant to future service as commander-in-chief: Clark said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to...
View ArticleObama Rebuffs Clark on McCain
Barack Obama has wisely distanced himself from surrogate Wes Clark’s disparagement of John McCain’s military experience. “For those like John McCain who have endured physical torment in service to our...
View ArticleDemocrats Attacking McCain’s Military Record: Is A Pattern Emerging?
Jim Geraghty is not buying the notion that Wes Clark’s attempts to diminish John McCain’s military service was done without coordination with the Democratic Powers that Be. After statements by a...
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Who’s Smearing Whom?
James Kirchich, recent nominee for an Yglesias Award for fairness, says that, while the Obama campaign is setting itself up to believe that “The only obstacle between Barack Obama and the presidency is...
View ArticleOne of These Is Not Like the Other
Timothy Sandefur is embarrassed: So I was watching this insane video of Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie discussing the War on Terrorism with Mos Def. And it’s amusing to laugh at the utterly...
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Petraeus New Hampshire Speech: Presidential Campaign Underway?
Reports that General David Petraeus is giving a speech at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics on March 24 is ginning up speculation that he’s running for president. Mark...
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