Reply #48: Norman Solomon characterizes Clark's objections to war as "tactical"

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(as opposed to pincipled).

I think Clark's book, Winning Modern Wars, supports that characterization even more than the quote above does.

Clark doesn't agree with the way the US got into the war (because he believes we could have achieved the same ends through virtual/soft empire), but he agrees with the execution of the invasion and with the intended outcome (a market economy which helps America get rich and get cheap oil). He argued that the problem with the post-invasion strategy (at the time the book was published in 2003) was that the army should not manage the institution-building phase (which is more appropriate for the state department to manage).