Reply #4: Compare Chavez with Clark [View All]

[PATRICK]

at least as political military leaders becoming political saviors. Clark is really really hamstrung while circumstances, horrific and polarized have made Chavez the man of the hour for his people where "strongman" and "lefty" issues are critical pluses for his democratic nation and region. There are no such clear answers in this country. Clark in learning from the supposedly best and strongest center of American politics has entered a Democratic party quagmire of bad choices. Hillary's caught in headlights or crossfire untenable high point where there is no way to go but down, is not strategically helpful.

Purely strategically it is hard for a military mind to cross over into a domestic mess like ours without a real coup d'etat. Comprehending, dealing with it, being the timely mind and the genius is a tall order for any human past or present. The critique is looking for just that, and looking for too much.

I would settle for two things. Just for once a consciousness of the problems outside the DC pol mob and cutting through the garbage to act. The hardest for Clark, or any current Dem leader, is actually the first without which the second is impotent.