Afghanistan? What’s that?
And, yes, I can take a hint.
Mark me down as one who does not think Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired for comments his aides made to Rolling Stone magazine.
Instead, mark me down as one who does think President Obama should ask Vice President Biden to resign if the Vice President cannot get behind the President’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af-Pak).
Mark me down as one who thinks Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry should be asked to Washington and asked to resign if he cannot get behind the President’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Af-Pak.
Mark me down as one who thinks Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke should be recalled to Washington and de-envoyed for I have no clue whatsoever as to his responsibilities. As in, if he has any, then what are Eikenberry’s?
As regular readers here know, I write quite a bit (when I write at all) about Afghanistan, especially in light of the impending Kandahar offensive. Just maybe this dust-up with McChrystal’s aides defending McChrystal will prompt people to assess President Obama’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Af-Pak that Obama first announced March 27, 2009, and not December 1, 2009 as some dishonest publications and propagandists would have people believe.
And just maybe this dust-up will prompt a honest assessment of who has been loyal to Obama’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy and who has not.
Hey, is that leak plugged, yet?
And, yes, I can take a hint.
Mark me down as one who does not think Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired for comments his aides made to Rolling Stone magazine.
Instead, mark me down as one who does think President Obama should ask Vice President Biden to resign if the Vice President cannot get behind the President’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af-Pak).
Mark me down as one who thinks Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry should be asked to Washington and asked to resign if he cannot get behind the President’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Af-Pak.
Mark me down as one who thinks Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke should be recalled to Washington and de-envoyed for I have no clue whatsoever as to his responsibilities. As in, if he has any, then what are Eikenberry’s?
As regular readers here know, I write quite a bit (when I write at all) about Afghanistan, especially in light of the impending Kandahar offensive. Just maybe this dust-up with McChrystal’s aides defending McChrystal will prompt people to assess President Obama’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy for Af-Pak that Obama first announced March 27, 2009, and not December 1, 2009 as some dishonest publications and propagandists would have people believe.
And just maybe this dust-up will prompt a honest assessment of who has been loyal to Obama’s new, comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy and who has not.
Hey, is that leak plugged, yet?
posted by Zack at 7:37 AM
1 Comments:
ZR: your bonafides as a contrarian remain intact. You're on point re: Eikenbery, Holbrooke, Biden. However, you're wrong re: McChrystal, unless by disagreeing that he should be fired you're advocating he be tried under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which he violated. The standard for military officers is different than civilian appointees, though both are (obviously) political appointments.
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