The Bush beater
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1091064,00.htmlIs 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
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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.