Bob Woodward, quoting the Law-Prof-Turned-President from the forthcoming book "
Obama's Wars:"
Privately, he told Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to push his alternative strategy opposing a big troop buildup in meetings, and while Mr. Obama ultimately rejected it, he set a withdrawal timetable because, "I can't lose the whole Democratic Party."
Mind you, Woodward writes well, and I suppose he see's his job as the first draft of history, so to speak - but his methodology leaves much to be desired, as the anonymity he affords his sources enable his sources to say pretty much what they want without gainsay - that and you have to leave aside Woodward's apparent psychic mind-reading ability, as he provides the players inner dialogue, but I digress.
Let us quote another professorial type, Dr. Sean Maloney, a historian working with Her Majesty's Canuckistani Forces, just back from one of several long trips to Afghanistan observing the war there first-hand, and
first published here at Castle Argghhh September 7th of this year:
I am extremely concerned that the counterinsurgency effort may be being artificially jammed into an American domestic political time-frame.
Good call, Doc. Unfortunately.
The
estimable Greyhawk weighs in as well, channeling Winston Churchill:
"Dynamite in the hands of a child is not more dangerous than a strong policy weakly carried out."
Indeed.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/compare_and_con_2.html
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Sep 23 2010, 06:37 AM
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