Comments on: The Generals vs Cheney:Four Days in September

By: ed

ed — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:43:31 +0000

WOW — a biography of Krulak (senior, aka Brute) has come out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/books/10book.html?src=dayp

By: ed

ed — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:06 +0000

Here however is another top-drawer general out there blasting Cheney and Bush as incompetent war leaders in Afghanistan:

http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/1442

General Eaton is a member of an organ founded in 2006 to temper/oppose the character of Bush-Cheney foreign policy. The advisory board includes Richard Clarke, Sandy Berger, Wesley Clark, Lesie Gelb — and Ted Sorenson, JFK’s speechwriter and top braintruster:
http://www.nsnetwork.org/about/board

By: ed

ed — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:21 +0000

A fortiori, I don't think the events of September (outlined in top post above) were without significance: A feature piece in the Times this morning airs the growling of anonymous generals about the President "pulling out the rug" from beneath them in Afghanistan, and moving to cut their budget. The nerve ...

“The thunderstorm is there and it’s kind of brewing and it’s unstable and the lightning hasn’t struck, and hopefully it won’t,” said Nathaniel C. Fick, a former Marine Corps infantry officer who briefed Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and is now the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a military research institution in Washington. “I think it can probably be contained and avoided, but people are aware of the volatile brew.”

By: ed

ed — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:09:26 +0000

And now the head of the VFW tells the President to shut up and just listen to his generals — all the policy debate is endangering the troops.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/15/world/international-uk-afghanistan-usa.html

Swifting Boating.

By: ed

ed — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Follow the arm-wrestling on the Pakghanistan policy this thread here. When specific items re Unhappy Generals appear, I'll continue to file them below. (You're aware you've stumbled into my filing cabinet, I presume.)

By: ed

ed — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:57:29 +0000

Gates rebukes McChrystal for going public with policy ideas on Pakghanistan. And assures public that the Pentagon will faithfully execute the President's decisions. Supports the notion that serious dissent exists across the river. And suggests (second time now) that Gates perhaps leans more toward the White House than Mullen-Petraeus on Pakghanistan.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:43:32 +0000

LA Times piece on theme -- the Generals vs Cheney -- on Gitmo prison closure and in suport of Atty General Eric Holder re the CIA interrogation issue.

By: ed

ed — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:53:56 +0000

And now David Letterman's going wack. WTF is going on ...