General Wesley Clark at one time was on the short list of veeps for President Obama and ran in 2004 for a short while, he won the Oklahoma Democratic primary even, and he has been a voice of sanity on US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That reign of sanity apparently ended on Friday as his interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts was shocking.
We have got to identify the people who are most likely to be radicalized. We've got to cut this off at the beginning. There are always a certain number of young people who are alienated. They don't get a job, they lost a girlfriend, their family doesn't feel happy here and we can watch the signs of that. And there are members of the community who can reach out to those people and bring them back in and encourage them to look at their blessings here.
But I do think on a national policy level we need to look at what self-radicalization means because we are at war with this group of terrorists. They do have an ideology. In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn't say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.
So, if these people are radicalized and they don't support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principle fine. It's their right and it's our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict. And I think we're going to have to increasingly get tough on this, not only in the United States but our allied nations like Britain, Germany and France are going to have to look at their domestic law procedures.
To be frank here, Gen. Clark is, at minimum, saying we need to round up "radical Muslims" who disagree with the US government and put them in a place like Gitmo. At worst case, he is openly calling for Muslim internment camps.
This is insanity, and this is verbatim what Gen. Clark has said after Thursday's awful shooting in Chattanooga, that we need to start rounding up Muslims wholesale.
Get this asshole over to the Republican side where he belongs. This is deep into Malkinvania and for a Democrat to go there is unacceptable.
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That's not a power I'd want any President to have - doubly scary if it was President Cruz...
The fundamental problem is that the voters have become conditioned to prefer spending $1,000/year or more to repair the damage their vehicles suffer from driving on poorly maintained roads than pay $500/year in (gasp) TAXES to keep them maintained. (Plus, there's no photo-op for road maintenance for the politicians' press releases.)
Yet another nail in the "rational consumer" model for free market economics.
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