Hmmm...so that's a stretch to believe that Rush Limbaugh or Hannity or Beck cares one iota for women...They must be running out of pulp fiction to troll on about...but to actually have to say straight face that the new mammography recommendations are a commie plot to start rationing health care...As if misogynists would care about women's health being rationed! Just in case you have a ten second memory,...
The roundtable members on Sunday's This Week derided or dismissed Sarah Palin, with David Brooks , the putative conservative columnist for the New York Times, declaring “she's a joke” and insisting “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host” -- leaving it to PBS's Gwen Ifill, of all people, to come to her defense as a fellow woman. Left-winger David...
Roundtable by digby Good Lord. Apparently Bob Woodward is going to do another of his "inside the room" books about Obama and Afghanistan: This morning on the Roundtable, legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward provided his unique insight into the complexity of President Obama’s decision-making process on Afghanistan. Woodward said he’s working on a book on topic and revealed...
This morning on the Roundtable, legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward provided his unique insight into the complexity of President Obama’s decision-making process on Afghanistan.
ABC News' Brittany Crockett and Teddy Davis Report: The Washington Post's Bob Woodward said Wednesday that the Obama administration's suggestion that the U.S. is "starting from scratch" in Afghanistan is an "extraordinary' statement which will prove hurtful to military families."...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander in Afghanistan, has put on quite a show of insubordination in the past month or so in an attempt to cram his escalation plan down the throat of the America public. He has waged open information warfare in the media, right wing and otherwise, against President Barack Obama. I wonder how much longer Obama will up with it. More to the point, I wonder if he can stand...
From Michael Ledeen, at the Weekly Standard , " We Have Met the Enemy ... And it is Iran ": Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan--which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information--seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor surprising. Iranians, and Iranian-trained terrorists from organizations such as Hezbollah, have been killing...
The Long Road to Indecision - Tom Donnelly, Center for Defense Studies After White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s performances on the Sunday talkies, it’s getting harder and harder to avoid the conclusion that the Obama Administration is looking for almost any reason it can find to limit any further commitment to Afghanistan. The latest line, per Emanuel but channeling Sen. John Kerry,...
A mericans have been aware of significant civil-military tensions since the early years of the Clinton administration. Although such tensions are not unprecedented, they have produced concerns about the health of civil-military relations. Most of the most highly publicized disputes between the uniformed military and the Clinton administration reflected cultural tensions between the military as an...
The debate over the best way forward intensifies in Washington. Two key voices on the Hill and two experienced military leaders weigh in on the direction a new war strategy should take: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.); and Gen. Richard Myers (Ret.). Plus a roundtable: Ron Brownstein, Paul Gigot, Katty Kay, Bob Woodward.TranscriptHome Page
The Pentagon's pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. McChrystal's painting of the military picture was grim. "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency...
As much as I may agree with Gen. Stanley McChrystal when it comes to Afghanistan, I must say that my old friend Jim Jones was correct when he told CNN’s John King that “it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command.” We can all agree that the president’s handling of Afghanistan has been deficient at best. Officers on the ground in Afghanistan wonder...
Bruce Ackerman, distinguished professor of law or something like that at Yale, writes in the Washington Post: A General's Public Pressure By Bruce AckermanSaturday, October 3, 2009 2002 The president, the Constitution tells us, is the commander in chief. But is it true? In a speech in London on Thursday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal Eric Shinseki publicly intervened in the debate over Afghanistan Iraq....
This morning, BooMan argues that Obama will not got for any sort of Afghanistan surge as in Iraq , and in fact is now engaged in trying to sell a withdrawal (emphasis mine): It appears that the administration is mainly working with the Washington Post in their effort to prep the country for a scale-down of our effort in Afghanistan. That is not to say that the Post is supportive of a scale-down. If...
National Security Advisor Jim Jones tells Bob Woodward “I don’t have a deadline in my mind” for completing the strategic review of President Obama’s Afghanistan policy, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on 'This Week' that a decision would come...
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