Interview

Wesley Clark

Clark and Power A Conversation on Parties and Policy

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  • ABOUT Wesley Clark

    General Wesley Clark served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Kosovo War.  He has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Purple Heart, and Honorary Knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments.  He is the author of Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat and Winning Modern War: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire.  A former Democratic presidential candidate, he is now a senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations.

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  • ABOUT Samantha Power

    Pulitzer Prize­ winner Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy.  She is a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine.

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If I were in uniform, and I’ve been there, I think I’d probably have stood up and gotten fired because we haven’t done the right things in Iraq.       

Former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe (and subsequent Democratic presidential candidate) Wesley Clark led the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) forces in the conflict in Kosovo, NATO's first major combat action. His leadership experiences in Vietnam, Latin America, and other theaters inform his thoughts on the Democrats’ ineffectiveness, the consequences of torture, and political strategy.

Journalist Samantha Power interviews Clark as he speaks candidly on the repercussions of Vietnam, his patriotic allegiance to the military, and his opinions on Iraq and Darfur. 

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