Two days ago, former Democratic Presidential candidate Wes Clark received some positive media coverage when he announced the new website for his political group, WesPAC. Today, he's back in the news, this time in Nevada. Antonio Planas of the Las Vegas Review-Journal has the story.

Former presidential candidate and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark told a crowd Thursday at UNLV that America is in a transition period and needs to have a unified military strategy to protect its citizens in a volatile world.

Clark, a four-star general and former NATO commander, said America lacked a cohesive military strategy in various military operations since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Democratic told the crowd that he was speaking on a nonpartisan basis.

"We lost our adversary and we lost our purpose in the world," Clark said of U.S. military planning at the end of the Cold War. "All Republicans and Democrats could agree on was that the armed forces were too large. We never really got an agreed strategy."

Clark said America's military strategy had a purpose after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He said U.S. military strategy turned into one of pre-emptive strikes, pointing to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The strategy of pre-emption isn't working," he said. "We went into Iraq, but it turned out there was no weapons of mass destruction."

Clark made a number of terrific points in his speech, but what was the real purpose of the engagement?

[Student Miles] Dickson said he'd like to see Clark run for president in 2008. Clark said before the speech that he hasn't ruled out his candidacy.

This wasn't the only interesting story in the Review-Journal this morning. Readers might remember that Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman discussed his enjoyment of potent potables two weeks ago. This morning, a former California gubernatorial candidate has stepped forward to help out the mayor.

Prop comic Gallagher plans to smash a watermelon full of gin at an "intervention convention" for Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Gallagher, who has made a career of pulverizing everything from vegetables to condiments with his Sledge-o-Matic, has scheduled the intervention fund-raiser for March 25.

"We need to step in now before he ends up governor. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but we can't have it happen in Carson City," Gallagher stated in a media release Thursday.

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