Last night "FOX Military Analyst" Wesley Clark made an appearance on the "No Spin Zone" with Bill O'Reilly. Mark Williams over at DEM bloggers was kind enough to post a clip of the interview. I watched the interview and it really took me back how batshit crazy O'Reilly appeared in an interview with a guy who stayed cool an on point.
Anyone interested can watch the clip here.
Two of the important points that Clark made were:
1) in response to O'Reilly's complaint about the NYT editorial page writing about Abu Graib fifty times - Clark: we should have a full investigation from top down so that we could put all that to rest.
2) in response to O'Reilly's comment that Clark was being too naive and sounded like Kerry, wanting to bring Germany and France in to help us and that O'Reilly wants to fight a war which instills fear in the terrorists -
Clark: "I want to fight a war that brings the full weight of every government in the world and all its people against the small number of people who are terrorists, not a war in which terrorists can get sympathy because of the way they are supposedly treated by the U.S. I've worked with France and Germany; I did diplomacy; I know what those countries have done if they're motivated the right way and can be led by the United States; I know they're doing a lot behind the scenes. What we need to do is put them in a position where they have got to come over to our side. It's leadership."
O'Reilly dominated a little but at one point O'Reilly kidded that Clark was going to take over the broadcast when they returned after commercial. Clark was on for two segments. I hear that the other segment is better than this one, and in the comments Mark says he's coming out with the other half of the interview later today.
I know there was a whole lot of hand wringing and consternation among many KOS readers about Clark going on FOX, but if this interview is a sign of things to come I for one am pleased to have someone on FOX speaking for our side