Notes on Gen. Wesley Clark’s appearance in Iowa from Tung Yin, Associate Professor, College of Law, The University of Iowa.
What should be our direction?
1) Inclusiveness: “You don’t make us safer by erecting walls to keep others out, but by building bridges. . . .”2) International organizations: “We have to use international institutions, not condemn and abuse them.” We need the U.N., and the U.N. needs us, he said.
3) Use of force: We should believe in a strong and effective military, but we should also realize that force is to be used as a last resort. “It’s very difficult to change people’s minds when you are bombing and killing them.”