Something's occurred to me while reading Generally Speaking:

W.K. Clark may have increasing amounts of trouble as he advances through the field. Is this due to the Machiavellian doings of Karl Rove? No, at least not yet. (Muahahaha.) It is because one of the prime movers in the Democrat nominatklatura (there's you some made-up Russian) are the people who are reflexively opposed to any use of force by the United States of America.

These are the people who beat on bongo drums and consider themselves deeply intellectual for skimming Noam Chomsky and leafing through The Nation and who consider The New Republic a bunch of war-mongering Yankee imperialist dogs. The only time they like military force is when it's deployed against Americans, be they civilian or military.

You see, Wesley K. Clark used military force against Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic never fired a shot against Americans up until we started bombing him. If memory serves, Chomsky the Great deemed Operation ALLIED FORCE some sort of imperialist venture (schyeah, who would want Yugoslavia?) Ergo, Wesley K. Clark, in the fever swamp minds of these people, will probably take on the odium of George W. Bush.

One wonders what their response to Adolf Hitler would have been. I suspect that they would've hollered about how Hitler posed no imminent threat and how we had no right to go in with the British. After we found out that Hitler was turning lots of innocent people in Europe into landfill or fly ash, these very same anti-military types would probably want to know why it was that America didn't act. Or maybe not; they've never been good at accepting responsibility for their actions. Ask the dead of unified Vietnam or Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia about that.

Anyhow, General Clark's only recourse if he chooses to engage these people is to either read them out of the party as William F. Buckley did to the John Birch Society for my side of the aisle, or drown the crazies in votes, by bringing in previously "non-Democratic" constituencies to overwhelm the bongo-drum bong smoke defenses. It might be better for the country if he does the former, but I'm not sure anyone in the Democratic party is positioned to do such a thing.

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