The Politics of Incompetence
On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar
Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use
underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the
Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear
internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most
embarrassing failure in the area of national [...]
It was Obama’s decision to tell the Taliban when we were leaving
A disgusting case of putting the pleasing of his base before the interests of our servicemen and women, our nation, and common sense:
It started out as a projection from the military, intended only for the ears of the president and his top advisors. But in a war council meeting at the White House less than [...]
Obama says he will smash al-Qaeda
US President Barack Obama has told a Washington war council meeting he intends to finish the job in Afghanistan by destroying al-Qaeda and its extremist allies so that they can’t operate in the region.
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Holbrooke to Telluride, Personal Archivist’s Whereabouts Unknown
Richard Holbrooke was the man who would be king, with jurisdiction from India to Afghanistan, overseeing American diplomacy and foreign policy in a region that will make or break the Obama presidency. But almost from the beginning things didn’t go as planned. The Indians sent a clear message to Washington: Holbrooke was not welcome, and [...]
Imagine There’s No Peace Prize, It’s Easy If You Try
So at the very moment that President Barack H. Obama convenes his “war council” to decide whether to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to expand operations in Afghanistan — changing to a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and adding 40,000 additional troops to the war effort — the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that the president, who has [...]
