Peacenik thinks soldiers should shut their pie holes. McChrystal should be fired for insubordination. But of course the media and other high ranking generals have their own agendas. Petraeus will probably run for president next time round. The media is trying to undermine Obama and promote more war.
Obama is pussyfooting around too many issues. And they are all going to blow up in his face. And the democrats are on the verge of blowing their supermajority in congress without passing any progressive, popularly supported legislation, without regulating the financial industry, without getting health care reform passed, and without winding down any of the wars. Heck of a job Obama.
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 5, 2009
National security adviser James L. Jones suggested Sunday that the public campaign being conducted by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan on behalf of his war strategy is complicating the internal White House review underway, saying that "it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command."
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who commands the 100,000 U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, warned bluntly last week in a London speech that a strategy for defeating the Taliban that is narrower than the one he is advocating would be ineffective and "short-sighted." The comments effectively rejected a policy option that senior White House officials, including Vice President Biden, are considering nearly eight years after the U.S. invasion.
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Obama is pussyfooting around too many issues. And they are all going to blow up in his face. And the democrats are on the verge of blowing their supermajority in congress without passing any progressive, popularly supported legislation, without regulating the financial industry, without getting health care reform passed, and without winding down any of the wars. Heck of a job Obama.
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 5, 2009
National security adviser James L. Jones suggested Sunday that the public campaign being conducted by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan on behalf of his war strategy is complicating the internal White House review underway, saying that "it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command."
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who commands the 100,000 U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, warned bluntly last week in a London speech that a strategy for defeating the Taliban that is narrower than the one he is advocating would be ineffective and "short-sighted." The comments effectively rejected a policy option that senior White House officials, including Vice President Biden, are considering nearly eight years after the U.S. invasion.
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