ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 15, 2005
Filed at 7:01 a.m. ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark said Saturday that the Pentagon's plan to close military bases around the country and reorganize troops will isolate the military from the American people and the rest of the world.
Clark said the plan to pull U.S. forces back home from abroad and centralize bases takes jobs away from smaller towns.
''We're losing influence abroad when we bring those troops home, and we lose the interaction with America when we create these super bases,'' Clark said in a speech to the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors Association....
Clark also voiced his concerns about Bush's nomination of John Bolton to United Nations ambassador, calling Bolton ''somewhat of a bully.''
moreClark has it right on both counts.
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