McKiernan, McChrystal, SOF & SF vs. GPF, SOF vs. SF, AF, IW, COIN... a good discussion on the McKiernan resignation as US Commander in Afghanistan, courtesy from SWJ.
Gen. McChrystal is a Green Beret who ran special operations forces in Iraq until moving to a top Pentagon job last year.
"We have a new strategy, a new mission and a new ambassador," Mr. Gates said. "I believe that new military leadership also is needed"....
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin' (Unreleased 1976)
Photo, courtesy of USSOC, joint ANA & USSF fighting patrol, April 2007.
Gen. McChrystal is a Green Beret who ran special operations forces in Iraq until moving to a top Pentagon job last year.
"We have a new strategy, a new mission and a new ambassador," Mr. Gates said. "I believe that new military leadership also is needed"....
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin' (Unreleased 1976)
Photo, courtesy of USSOC, joint ANA & USSF fighting patrol, April 2007.
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"ADM. MULLEN: I think -- I mean, in some ways, we're learning as we go here."
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4424
"Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt_fDuBjqqA
By the way...
"AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Talk about this testimony you gave before Congress and why you spoke out against the expansion of war in Afghanistan.
ANDREW BACEVICH: Well, I was invited to testify by Senator Kerry and thought it was appropriate for me to accept the invitation. I have been deeply disappointed by the direction of US policy in AfPak, as the Obama administration chooses to call it, ever since President Obama was inaugurated. I know, as do others, that when he was running for the office, he promised to reorient the US military effort from Iraq to Afghanistan. I had hoped that that was simply campaign talk to protect himself from the charge of being weak on national security. And therefore, I regret that it turns out that he’s serious on doubling down in Afghanistan and expanding US military efforts in Pakistan. I think both of those are mistaken.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you think needs to be done right now?
ANDREW BACEVICH: Well, I mean, that is the core question, and I think you can come at that question at several different levels. I think the most important level, the most fundamental level, is that we need—the Obama administration needs to revisit some core questions that it has thus far ignored.
And what do I mean by that? I mean that in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration, as it launched this so-called global war on terror, did so assuming that the United States possesses the capacity and also has a requirement to determine the fate of nations in the greater Middle East. And the Bush administration intended to begin this project of determining the fate of nations in that region by focusing on Iraq. It seems to me that the Obama administration has implicitly endorsed that notion, that we can determine the fate of nations there, albeit its focus is on Afghanistan and Pakistan. And I think that that core issue needs to be critically addressed. Do we possess the capacity to determine the fate of a place like Afghanistan? Do we need even to make the effort? That is to say, do our interests requirement—require it? And I think the answer to both those questions is, no, we don’t have the capacity, and we don’t have the requirement. So, what we need to do first of all, I think, is ask fundamental strategic questions."
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/11/conservative_historian_andrew_bacevich_warns_against
"It was a point of pride that the Red Cross would never be allowed in the door, Jeff says. This is important because it defied the Geneva Conventions, which require that the Red Cross have access to military prisons. "Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel. 'Will they ever be allowed in here?' And he said absolutely not. He had this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there's no way that the Red Cross could get in — they won't have access and they never will. This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating, even Army investigators.""
http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0806TERROR_102?click=main_sr
"There is solid evidence that McChrystal played an active part in enabling torture in Iraq, and his activities in charge of many secret special operations almost certainly involved condoning acts that might be illustrated by these photos. The MSM has, of course, failed to mention this in their fawning profiles of McChrystal."
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/obama-reverses-course-on-torture-photos.html
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