Richard Clarke, who served as counter-terrorism adviser for Presidents Clinton and Bush, slammed the current plan to escalate troops in Iraq as one that would only "delay the inevitable," during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
"I think that the president's plan just delays the inevitable," Clarke said, adding that when the US troops finally do leave Iraq, even if it's years from now, "there's going to be chaos."
"A lot of the people are fighting us just because we're there," Clarke believes.
With President Bush's "new" surge strategy, the only thing that will happen, Clarke maintained, is that "more Americans get killed and more Ameircans get maimed."
Clarke argued that there was a "vast middle ground," not talked about between escalation and withdrawal, and that more diplomacy and intelligence were needed.
In 2004, Clarke published a book, Against All Enemies, which sharply criticized the Bush Administration on its record of fighting terrorism during the president's first year in office before the 9/11 attacks.
Richard Clarke, who served as counter-terrorism adviser for Presidents Clinton and Bush, slammed the current plan to escalate troops in Iraq as one that would only "delay the inevitable," during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.