Clark warns of weak U.S. foreign policyBy ELIZABETH HILLAKER
Alligator Contributing Writer
Gen. Wesley Clark said America's foreign policy has been mostly ineffective in a speech on Wednesday night commemorating the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. He took hard stances on economic, military and diplomatic issues.
"You don't win a war by killing people, you win it by changing people's ideas," Clark told an audience of about 1,000 at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The speech was sponsored by Accent, Student Government speaker's bureau.
He also commented on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, saying he would have been on the ground in New Orleans from day one.
However, foreign policy was a larger theme of the general's speech. While the United States has not been hit by another terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide has increased, he said.
He advocated reducing the government's overreliance on the military and instead empowering ideological arguments against those who use religion for murder. "If you want to win, you start going on the offensive with ideas," Clark said. More.....
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