LAT: UCLA Attracts Retired General Wesley Clark as Senior Fellow

[DeepModem Mom]

UCLA Attracts Retired General Wesley Clark
By Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writer
September 17, 2006

Wesley K. Clark, a former NATO commander and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, will join the University of California, Los Angeles, this fall as a senior fellow, university officials are set to announce Monday.

Clark, who is expected to arrive on campus about the first of October, will teach occasional seminars, publish policy papers and organize and hold an annual conference on national security, officials said. He will be affiliated with the university's Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations.

The retired general's wide-ranging military, political and teaching background will serve UCLA and its students well, said Patricia O'Brien, executive dean of the university's College of Letters and Science. "I am especially pleased that our students at UCLA will benefit from General Clark's extraordinary experience, as well as his dynamic leadership and teaching credentials," O'Brien said in a statement.

Clark, who taught economics and political philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the early 1970s, said in a brief phone interview Friday that he was looking forward to returning to the classroom, although initially he will be a guest lecturer in other professors' courses and not teach his own.

"I'll be looking at U.S. national security in the broadest terms, including military, diplomatic, energy, environmental and trade issues," said Clark, who served as NATO's commander during the 1999 Kosovo conflict. "There's never been a time in American history when Americans have been more impacted by events abroad, and we need a strategy that touches all those areas."...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-clark18sep18,0,4679495.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[goclark]

1. Excellent!

[FightingIrish]

2. There's certainly nothing wrong with a brilliant president.

Clark is almost the perfect candidate and could be the perfect president. In spite of his brilliance, I'd sure rather have a beer with him that the mean drunk we now have in the White House.

[BreweryYardRat]

3. If/when he gets his own course...

You can bet your ass I'll look into spending a semester at UCLA.

That is the only course I'd make a point of being consistently on time for.

[FrenchieCat]

4. I'm pissed.....

My daughter decided not to go to UCLA last year..... Shit!

Can one Audit Lectures? I'm in Northern Cal. I can get there in about 5 hours! LOL!

Actually, this is very good for America.....Wes will have a receptive audience to teach instead of the Fox rock heads.

Plus, he'll get to be there as his two grandsons grow up, as his son and wife live in L.A.!

[Nashyra]

5. Hell I'll commute from Tahoe

I'll see you in class Frenchie

[FrenchieCat]

6. Just make sure to drop by on the way and pick me up!

We can make it an adventure!

[TacticalPeek]

7. k&r

:kick:

[wiley]

8. Can we have kicking Donkeys in the subject line?

If that school wants to make money they should webcast his seminars. Fortunately he's all over the country speaking for Democratic candidates running for November wins. Good to see that the man is presented as someone with experience in many fields. Having a President that understands the implications of trade, environmental issues, diplomacy, etc. on Foreign Policy would be so amazing.

Dare I even hope that qualified, experienced, insightful leaders will be running this country next year?

[KittyWampus]

12. Really, I'd pay for those webcasts or to take any of his courses online

Oh yes I would.

[wiley]

9. Energy! Imagine a Fireign Policy based on sound principles and a vision

instead of a blow things up and take over countries to garb oil.

[Adelante]

10. The Clark's are not leaving Little Rock

They're not selling their house and moving to California. So says WesPac.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Here's another article.....gets more into the details....it's from UCLA

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7338