WESLEY CLARK FOR VICE PRESIDENT

I'm finally settled on my recommendation for John Kerry's running mate: Wesley Clark. The world is looking awfully scary as a result of nearly four years of Smirk and Chaingang, and ordinary people are beginning to look freaked-out. It's time for "grownups" to take over, and I can't think of anyone more reassuring to the public in general than Gen. Clark. He's the whole package -- and one of the few (if not the only one) who might have a decent chance of turning this Iraq/Afghanistan/War on Terra thing around. Plus, he should appeal to the military chain of command, at least those who have been speaking out recently (albeit anonymously) against the Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Myers non-plan.

Via Mark Kleiman, we link to Broken Engagement in the Washington Monthly. It's subtitled, "The strategy that won the Cold War could help bring democracy to the Middle East-- if only the Bush hawks understood it."

More about General Clark later...