 merrie says: Fawning “Inconvenient Truth Teller” article inside paints him as a sort of goof savant … a bit like Chauncey Gardiner of “Being There,” he’s been in Washington DC his entire life, everyone likes him, and suddenly they think he’s a genius. The three-decade gaffe-and-reverse record requires some acrobatics, though. The Newsweek scribblers clearly like his go-lite, wack-a-mole strategy though they are big enough to admit at the end that people who actually know what they are talking about say it won’t work. It’s not exactly the Joe Biden embed that I wished out loud NYT’s Dexter Filkins would do as a counterbalance to his McChyrstal piece earlier this week,* but close. [...] Some administration officials, led by Biden, appear to hope that American forces can rely more on counterterrorism operations"attacks by Predator drones and small elite units on terrorist hiding places"to hold Afghanistan together and defeat Al Qaeda. But critics call this “splitting the baby" and say . . . . . it’ll never work. As a senior civilian Pentagon official points out, “No one has more experience with counterterrorism than McChrystal,” who ran black ops in Iraq and Afghanistan for five years. “If there was an easier, better way, he’d be pushing for it,” says this official, who would not be quoted discussing internal deliberations. [...] Whatever Obama thinks about Afghan strategy, I don’t think he’s going with anything now popularly known as ”The Biden Plan.” News that he might actually be supporting his generals’ very considered proposal is encouraging, and hopefully he won’t, in some kind of clumsy political sop, do what I’d call “splitting the baby,” which isn’t Biden’s plan ... Now if this president had any courage or resourcefulness, he would join the Pakistan assault from the Afghan side and put a serious squeeze on the enemy. No, of course not. Cajones not present (could it be that Obama is working for al Qaeda? nah, who would think that outrageous thought?) Nope, our teleprompter in chief is allowing the enemy to squirt out from the Pakistani hammer back safely into Afghanistan unencumbered and unchallenged. There are terrible things in life, but I can imaging one of the worst is to be a military commander serving under this muslim/faux Hawaiian wimp from Kenya. |
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