Who’s In Charge?
The CBS site is carrying this story: Secret Report Urges New Afghanistan Policy
(The Politico) The Pentagon’s top military officers are recommending to President Barack Obama that he shift U.S. strategy in Afghanistan – to focus on ensuring regional stability and eliminating Taliban and al Qaeda safe havens in Pakistan, rather than on achieving lasting democracy and a thriving Afghan economy, officials said.
This is a brain-dead attempt to undercut the new administration if it is true. This will result in some very nasty blow-back in Pakistan and endanger the security of their nuclear arsenal. We will probably lose the land link to Afghanistan in the near future. There will be a coup and riots in Pakistan. International support for the Afghan mission will be lost and we won’t have gained a thing, while al Qaeda will have two countries and possibly nuclear weapons with which to threaten the world.
February 3, 2009 Comments Off on Who’s In Charge?
Wisdom
On the economy:
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
Albert Einstein
On the new RNC chairman:
“It is much better to remain silent and let everybody think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln [restating Proverbs 17:28]
On the GOP in the House and Senate:
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
John Stuart Mill
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