{"id":528,"date":"2008-07-02T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=528"},"modified":"2008-07-02T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:55:40","slug":"maverick-v-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Maverick v. Maverick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Maverick%20v.%20Maverick%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/spaceball.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/spaceball.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/international.ucla.edu\/media\/images\/toddcheney-clark.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"295\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2004\/08\/31\/2mccain.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Would you consider Wesley Clark to be a Maverick? Consider this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/89216\/page\/1\">from a Newsweek article<\/a> about Clark and his relief of NATO command in 1999:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since his days at West Point, Clark has been something of a loner&#8230;. Clark gloried in being the lone warrior, the take-no-prisoners intellectual. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to stop this ambitious man,&#8221; said one of his European peers during the war. His colleagues might admire and envy Clark, but few actually liked him.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Clark&#8217;s fights with other NATO commanders were legendary. Early in the conflict, he ordered up a task force of Apache tank-busting helicopter gunships, after going to the White House over the protests of the U.S. Army chief of staff, Gen. Dennis Reimer. The Army dragged its feet and took nearly a month just to reach the theater&#8211;and never did fire a missile in anger. At the end of the war, Clark was so anxious to stop the Russians from stealing a march to Pristina airport that he ordered an airborne assault to take the field before them. But Gen. Mike Jackson, the British commander on the ground in Kosovo, wouldn&#8217;t carry out Clark&#8217;s orders. Subsequently, a frustrated Clark asked Adm. James Ellis Jr., the American officer in charge of NATO&#8217;s Southern Command, to order helicopters to land on the runways so big Russian Ilyushin transports couldn&#8217;t use them. Ellis balked, saying Jackson wouldn&#8217;t like it. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to start World War III for you,&#8221; Jackson later told Clark. Both Jackson and Clark appealed to their political leadership back home for support. Jackson got all the help he needed; Clark didn&#8217;t. Effectively, his orders as Supreme Commander were overruled.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/education.yahoo.com\/reference\/dictionary\/entry\/maverick\">Maverickey<\/a> to me.<\/p>\n<p>You know how &#8220;Conventional Wisdom&#8221; says that people who are a lot alike often don&#8217;t get along. Concerning failed presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark&#8217;s recent statements about McCain; I wonder if there might be just a little bit of jealousy of the fellow Maverick&#8217;s political success??? Is the unlikeable maverick jealous of the likeable one???<\/p>\n<p>PS. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/derekwalter.com\/blog\/?p=97#respond\">Derek<\/a> for leading me to the article that inspired the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Maverick%20v.%20Maverick%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Would you consider Wesley Clark to be a Maverick? Consider this from a Newsweek article about Clark and his relief of NATO command in 1999: Since his days at West Point, Clark has been something of a loner&#8230;. Clark gloried in being the lone warrior, the take-no-prisoners intellectual. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}