I seem to recall that General Wesley Clark was given a command by President “I-Can’t-Master-My-Own-Genitalia” in the Yugoslavia NATO adventure. He was deeply involved in the planning of a military campaign in Montenegro, but the war came to an end. The CIA has admitted responsibility for the outdated and incorrect data leading to the bombing of the Chinese Embassy on his watch.

I would like to know what other general officers think of Clark. He seems to have had a genuine military career, not just a “ticket-punching” bunch of rear-echelon junkets.

Sadly, his intelligence may be his own biggest problem. What makes me say this is the conspicuous frequency of tragi-comic downfalls history has shown us of men who were supremely intelligent, and mistook their intelligence for infallibility. Clark seems to be another one of those whose cleverness arguably is insufficient preparation for navigating the treacherous shoals and snags of politics. Somehow, possibly because of a naive idealism untempered by study of U.S. domestic realities, he threw in with the Liberal Left. Maybe this is because his career became inextricably indebted to the sponsorship of Mr. Clinton. But having aligned himself with the Left, he is obliged to mouth their approved “Party Line.” For a military guy like Clark, it might take a passel of courage to choose apostasy from the Left.