General Clark keeps his eyes on the prize

I've been critical of Democratic politicians who are already politicizing disasters to make their case for the presidency in 2008. That said, General Wesley Clark has made a brilliant, common sense argument against the GOP's tactics to oppose terror. That said, I'm anything but a blue dog Democrat, and I think that moving to the right would be disastrous for the party and the nation. But I'm sticking to my 2004 stance that Clark would be a brilliant candidate for president (and he'd have the support of moderate righties in spite of his apparent commitment to Democratic principles). More on that later. Here's what he had to say on Monday:

But fighting terrorism at home isn't just a matter of "killing terrorists." Terrorists aren't born that way. They are created by their interaction with their surroundings. To win this war, we must defeat the ideology of terrorism, depriving angry young people of their ability to justify their hateful actions in the name of Allah. . . ..

In addition, the London attacks remind us how much more devastating even decentralized terrorist strikes could be were they to have employed biological, chemical or radiological weapons. The most profound threat we face is a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. And yet, despite the president's call to "prevent the worst people from getting the worst weapons," efforts to halt the proliferation of weapons have received short shrift. The latest example has been the administration's failure at the recent review conference to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.