Freedom & Progress

F&P freely admits that in the 2004 Democratic Primary, we had high hopes for General Wesley Clark. However, inexperience in campaigning, John Kerry's fundraising, and a slew of terrible advice led to Clark's early demise. However, unlike most Democrats, Clark has extensive experience at war and with the military. Though he opposed the War in Iraq at its inception, Clark understands that should United States lose another war, particularly to this fascist terrorist enemy, it would devastate military moral, threaten the collective national security and debilitate our strategic position in the region.

In yesterday's piece in the New York Times, General Clark lays out a comprehensive strategy for victory (one that doesn't involve cluing in the enemy as to the timing of the War's end). F&P urges its Democratic readers to read it and take notice of the difference between this strategy and the one of retreat, surrender, and withdrawal articulated by the likes of Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and the Moveon / Daily Kos crowd.