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Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Fred Kaplan of Slate has some very interesting excerpts from Wesley Clark's new book, Winning Modern Wars, including one that uncovers the beginnings of the post-9/11 PNAC plan:
As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan. … He said it with reproach—with disbelief, almost—at the breadth of the vision. I moved the conversation away, for this was not something I wanted to hear. And it was not something I wanted to see moving forward, either.
Yikes! And this was while we were still working on Afghanistan . . . which we still haven't got right!

Anyway, read the rest of the excerpts, and you'll really begin to understand why A) so many people have been having wet dreams about a Wesley Clark candidacy, and B) Clark should be on the national ticket somehow anyway. I'd suggest he keeps talking like this.

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