Wednesday, June 23, 2010

That Rolling Stone interview

The Runaway General by Michael Hastings
Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House

"The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. "The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.


Douglas Macgregor (youtube channel)

Kelley Vlahos, Stan the Man and the people who own the war
Obama’s McChrystal Gaffe--Thomas Fleming
Patrick J. Buchanan, From MacArthur to McChrystal

Counterpunch: Deepak Tripathi,The Obama-McChyrstal Showdown
Jayne Lyn Stahl, The McChrystal Shield

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