Huh? This was Wesley Clark's responsibility, and we know he's a master at capturing evasive bad guys. After all, as he assured the nation recently, he woulda captured Usama two years ago if he'd been President.</heavy dripping sarcasm>
Seriously, the interesting thing about this is that Wes' excuses for not nabbing the Balkans war criminals, like most of his other complaints concerning the conduct of the Bosnia and Kosovo campaigns, identify excessive mulilateralism as the problem. The French sheltered the bad guys in the areas they controlled, and air strikes had to be pre-approved by all the nations of NATO and the U.N. security council (strikes against leadership, or based on time dependent intelligence, or capitalizing on the shifting vicissitudes of war, all being out of the question).
And so how would Wes have gotten Usama? Well, by being more multilateral than Bush, of course.
This doesn't bode well for the prospect of an effective President emerging from the Democrat Party. Apparently 'Rats can't learn from history even when they're part of it.
If current tactics are not successful (though considerable progress has been made since this article was written, including the capture of Saddam), President Bush is obligated to adopt tactics such as VDH advocates. This should be done openly and proudly. Let our enemies fear us.
