"Something that looks an awful lot like democracy is beginning to take hold in Iraq."
So says Newsweek:
Bush's rhetoric about democracy came to sound as bitterly ironic as his pumped-up appearance on an aircraft carrier a few months earlier, in front of an enormous banner that declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. And yet it has to be said and it should be understood—now, almost seven hellish years later—that something that looks mighty [...]
Portraying Petraeus
Much as I would love to be able to cite Gen. David Petraeus as favoring the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) and supporting gays serving openly in the military, I can’t; Petraeus did not go that far. (Not yet, anyway.)
However, he did allow that no significant problems occurred when other counties, including [...]
"I Reject Your Reality…"
“…And substitute my own!”
So reads a t-shirt often worn by Adam Savage, one of the two original starts of the Discovery Channel’s series Mythbusters, which I have slavishly watched since the very first episode (I think that was the episode where they busted the myth of the rocket-propelled car launching into the air).
The tee commemorates [...]
Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan "Surge" - Just Like Failed Iraq "Surge!"
I had forgotten this, but President Barack H. Obama’s National Security Advisor, former Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones, in Fall, 2007, called for an early abandonment of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Iraq — just before it began to show significant progress that led, less than a year later, to a widely acknowledged [...]
Obamalemma
Why, oh why is President Barack H. Obama taking so blasted long deciding what to do about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s strategy and troop request in Afghanistan?
The Commander in Chief let it languish at the Pentagon for a month before even requesting it. Obviously, he already knew what was in it; the Pentagon leaked it, [...]
Obamunism: See No Wisdom, Hear No Wisdom, Speak No Wisdom
And in the meanwhile, the New York Times reports that Barack H. Obama (or one of his minions) has muzzled Gen. David Petraeus, who remains Commander of CENTCOM but appears unappetizing to the powers that be in the D. of C.:
General Petraeus’s aides now privately call him “Dave the Dull,” and say he has largely [...]
