[Socratic]

"reputation"

Sometimes reputations are deserved, sometimes not. Time usually reveals the truth. Sometimes people or nations suffer because the truth is not revealed soon enough.

[marcinrochester]

Clarke was a registered Republican in 2000. He was actually an America-first foreign policy hawk, a Cold War warrior, involved in all sorts of covert and semi-legal actions in pursuit of American interests around the world.

Clarke is not so easy on Clinton either. I actually agree with Clarke and I think that ALL of the politicians Bush included have too much ignored terrorism. Now the ENTIRE administration is coming out trying to smear Clarke, and it sickens me because I think (I don't really know enough) that this guy is some kind of American hero.