Who knows, we could have another come from behind candidate that is from Little Rock...
esquire.com
<<...And so, yes, Wesley K. Clark is what the people of the United States of America generally like their presidents to be—or at least feel comfortable with their presidents being: a veteran. But there's more to it than that, of course; he's more than just a veteran, a guy who heard the call of his country and marched and drilled and slogged and shot people and got shot at and did his time and opened up a nice little law practice somewhere. He chose the Army. He was offered scholarships everywhere, but he chose West Point, where he finished first in his class as a plebe, first in his class as a senior, and went off to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He loved the Army. He'll tell you he loved it: "I loved it too much! I loved it except for two days—the day I got shot and the day I was told I had to retire." Yes, he'll tell you that, too. He'll say that in his speeches to the adoring crowds: "I was fired." After he won the war in Kosovo. After he stayed the genocidal hand of Slobodan Milosevic. After he served as the very fulcrum of the tension between military and civilian that characterized the Clinton era. The Army broke his heart, but only because he loved it so much—and, anyway, that's the deal with the Army. Listen: "Right now, the military is the only action agency in the United States government, so any time anyone wants something done, the military is being called upon to do it. But that's the trouble. The military knocked things down in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's very good at knocking things down. But now we have to build things, and the military's not very good at building things. It's not about building things. It's about allowing what you've built to be destroyed. It's about allowing people you love to be killed."...>>
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btw, there is a part of me that wants our next President to be a veteran -- someone who has really looked the enemy in the eye before. |
