Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr.is a retired General of the United States Army. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and the Presidential Medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth23 December 1944
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.
We feel that NATO had to act as it did,
We're in there without a strategy to win, and without a strategy to exit properly, and now the president's asked for $87 billion to prosecute it,
The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,
We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,
I will strengthen them so that we can solve problems together, so that the use of military force is our last resort, not our first, and if America must act with force we can call on the military, financial, and moral resources of others.
I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.
It is definitely succeeding in putting the pressure on at the strategic and at the tactical level,
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.
Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.
Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan,
My opponents on the inside have said that the American people shouldn't hold them responsible for everything that happens because we don't understand how things work in Washington,
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,