Clark: It's morally wrong what the country's asked of them in comparison to 98% of Americans.

Clark on Charlie Rose show, 7/26/07

This is an abridged conclusion to a longer interview covering a variety of topics -


"I had a wonderful career in the United States Army. I helped a lot of people. We helped a lot of families.

It was being a Battalion Commander and working with soldiers. It was being the Commanding General at the National Training Center and fighting for housing. it was worrying about schools at Fort Hood. It was making sure that school boards in Europe were right and changing the curriculum. Those were opportunities, they were gifts really, that were given to my family and me that we could work on, and I'm really grateful for them. It's one of the great things that the Army learned coming out of Vietnam is- I mean, we really went to school in the United States Army. We fixed a lot of the problems we saw. We developed new training and leadership doctrine and other things. And you can see the payoff of that.

This is an incredible Armed Forces that we have right now. It's hung together so well, and you know, I feel badly that in, the inequity of the burden that's hit these volunteers who are serving in uniform. It's just, it, it's wrong, morally wrong what the country's asked of them in comparison to the 98% of Americans who don't have any connection with it. But having said that, they're magnificent, and what they've done and the feeling they have and the passion they convey for the people they serve with. It's, it's a wonderful, it's a wonderful institution that we built in American democracy."

Full audio and video at www.securingamerica.com
This portion of the interview is at the end and you can really hear and see the emotion.

That is all.
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what we are asking of our military is reprehensible....no question about it...wb

Reprehensible.

and ask him why, if we are fighting for the survival of the nation and our way of life, then why is there no draft so everyone can fight for that cause, why, is there no surtax on ALL forms of income, to put the war on a pay-as-you-go basis, and why, are there no anti-profiteering laws so companies such as Halliburton, Raytheon, et al., can not make huge profits while others are sacrificing life and limb.
Never an answer.

and then send in more troops, and more, and more, and on into Iran, and Syria, and…

He's a good man...

Clark, the hawkish author of NATO civilian bombing runs, is an odd one to preach about the morality of war.

While he may have "helped a lot of families," he has surely immiserated many more.

In any case, it's not merely time to bring home the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. It's time to cut the size of our military and take this country off a permanent war footing. We have wasted too much treasure and too many lives in pursuit of empire, and this insanity should stop. Wheezy warriors like Clark could help, but he hasn't contributed a single meaningful thought yet; he's not even against the Iraq war, merely for making technocratic adjustments.

A case of projection, perhaps?

GI Bill days, to give men and women of poor means, an opportunity to live a secure life, serve their country and rise into the Middle and Upper Middle classes of society. Definitely more egalitarian than the snobby Air Force.