John McCain is the architect of the militarization of American politics. He perfected the use of the "military card" to intimidate political opponents like Barack Obama into silence, as was the case recently when he suggested that for all Obama's lack of military experience, he had no business criticizing him. And needless to say, McCain's chastisement of Obama elicited no response from the latter in what clearly was intimidation at work. To that extent, then, McCain had fired the first shot in what promises to be a shameless dragging of the good name of the military into a mess of political bickering and partisanship politicians cannot do without. Thus, Jim Webb is emerging as a voice of reason in this latest "military card" saga as he cautions politicians to "get the politics out of the military" 

At the CBS Face the Nation on Sunday General Wesley Clark struck just the right note when he questioned John McCain's military experience as a qualification for the presidency. For the Obama campaign to now turn aroud and repudiate General Clark---who after all is by far more qualified than McCain, and having commanded troops in a battlefield--- is as spineless and treacherous of them as it gets. Make no mistake, Barack Obama, whether he admits it or not, needs generals like Clark to put the McCains of this world in their own place. Afterall it was John McCain, when criticised recently for not voting for the GI bill designed to take care of returning servicemen, he snobbishly invoked his military experience. The same guy who was last in his class had the temerity to disparage Obama for his lack of military experience, ignoring the fact that the man he was downgrading is in fact a Harvard-trained Constitutional Law expert as well as a former student of International Relations.  It should be noted that very few American presidents have had training in these academic disciplines which gives Obama an added insight into the workings of our government and public administration, as well as strategic clarity into the intricasies of international politics.