[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Clark advanced in his career by being a politician, not because of his military aptitude. He never had any military core values, he was just a people-pleaser. It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of the senior military these days.

[drt1]

Wasn't he also a boyhood FOB?

[Darkwolf377]

I never GOT Clark--he seemed like some extremely tightly-wound desk jockey who liked to "toss a few back with the boys" once a year to prove he was a man's man. He was one of the least-interesting military commentators, and to this day I recall his prediction of "5000 US dead, minimum" if we attempted to take Baghdad, which would lead one to think he wouldn't bitch and moan about our total losses there so far in the war.

To this civilian he always seems like one of Ralph Peters's "perfumed princes".

[bert]

......It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of the senior military these days......

He's been gone a while. What reason is there to believe he is representative of our senior military as it presently exists.

[dk/coro]

I second your thoughts completely. Clark simply slipped through the cracks -- and was never called for his megalomania; his crass opportunism; and his sustained -- and most serious -- grossly inept and amateurish strategic and tactical combat decisions.

This turkey is a real loser, IMHO -- and the hallmark in which Clark failed so miserably is reflected in the fact that his subordinates -- virtually to a man -- hold him in total contempt!

Thank for you for your insightful analysis of this failed general officer.

[Doofer]

Clark advanced in his career by being a politician, not because of his military aptitude. He never had any military core values, he was just a people-pleaser. It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of the senior military these days.

And this during the Clinton years. Thank God that Bush won a second term and not some liberal weeny. Why? Because now you have to be a warrior first and then a politician [read suckup] to make Flag Officer.

[Let's Roll]

Too many career military types are bureaucrats in a uniform. Just one more instance where losers are carried by those around them.