Thursday 23 June 2011

How Toning Down A Failed Aggressive War Is 'Aggressive'

At a House of Representatives committee hearing, Adm Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Mr Obama's decisions were "more aggressive and incur more risk than I was originally prepared to accept".
"More force for more time is, without doubt, the safer course. But that does not necessarily make it the best course," he said.
"Only the president, in the end, can really determine the acceptable level of risk we must take."
In a Senate committee hearing, Mrs Clinton said the 10-year-old US military effort in Afghanistan had "broken the Taliban's momentum".
"We do begin this drawdown from a position of strength," she said. 'Bollocks', the world said.
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2 comments:

  1. James Gundun23 June 2011 at 15:03

    A grotesque display of U.S. media spin. Although I did troll some hundreds of comments and a minority people realize the scam of Obama's "accelerated withdrawal." Just not enough. The problem, obviously, is that leaving and staying are both dangerous options. The debate itself, then, becomes even more warped than it already is.

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  2. Tao Dao Man23 June 2011 at 18:05

    "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
    Tacitus

    This is a great quote.
    It says it all.

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