With President Bush poised to unveil his new plan for Iraq, pundits (and Democrats) have been hacking away at a purported surge in US forces. Among them is former head of US European Command and former Presidential candidate, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, who writes in a Washington Post op-ed that any troop surge would simply “distract us from facing the deep-seated regional issues that must be resolved.” He goes on to note that we’ve never had enough troops in Iraq and that “adding 20,000 now seems too little, too late.” Clark advocates the Iraq Study Group view—more political muscle is needed. He says, “The neoconservative vision has failed.”
In written testimony to the Senate, the nominee to oversee the Air Force’s installations and energy enterprise endorsed the continued privatization of military housing and called for the department to think more during the acquisition process about how it will power new weapons systems when the logistics supply chain is…
