Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Regurge post
Look, schmucks! This article is fantastic and no one commented on it. I bet you guys are too busy playing with your stumps thinking of Obama's willie to read it. So would you, now that he's under Kennedy's aegis? The article is worth it even though it is by some yahoo named Fred Barnes. Wasn't he one of the idiots in the MacLaughlin Group? The one they hired because he looks like G F Will?
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Freddie "The Beatle" Barnes!
OK, Joe -- I did read the piece now (I'd seen it even before you posted it first time, but was too lazy to click on it.) And yes, you're right -- it's a very good one by Barnes, reads more like a history book than a stupid article. One extract caught my eye:
In September, Rumsfeld had rejected the idea of a surge when retired general Jack Keane, a former vice chief of staff of the Army and a member of the advisory Defense Policy Review Board, met with him and Pace. Keane insisted the "train and leave" strategy, as Bush referred to it, was failing. He proposed a counterinsurgency strategy, the addition of five to eight Army brigades, and a primary focus on taking back Baghdad. Rumsfeld was unconvinced.
Was Rummy that stupid? I used to think highly of him in the old days...
Counterpoint: But the loudest voice for a change in Iraq was Senator John McCain of Arizona. He and his sidekick, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, traveled repeatedly to Iraq. McCain badgered Bush and Hadley with phone calls urging more troops and a different strategy. Together, McCain, Keane, Petraeus, the network of Army officers, and Kagan provided a supportive backdrop for adopting a new strategy.
Maybe the Beatle Barnes is getting ready to defend his political history dissertation?
AI, I had always suspected that airwad Rummy was to blame. That's an ethnic prejudice thing though. I knew a lot of USAF types for awhile. They think anything can be done with just the right machine. I didn't know how much McCain was involved in pushing Bush toward the surge. In that case, he's better than Giuliani and I am happy what's happening in Fl.
Thank God for Petraeus.
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