Link to 60 Minutes piece: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6923496n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
One first view last night - and that only because I was watching the football game that...
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Link to 60 Minutes piece: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6923496n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
One first view last night - and that only because I was watching the football game that...
Or maybe Matt Damon? Because the movie version practically writes itself.
High five.
"the population and terrain favor us and we have quick access to air support" sounds like a good description of Germany.
Today, I mean, not 1945.
1. What Gen McChrystal & staff said/did
2. How that was reported
3. How the report was reported by other reporters before it came out
What I've seen in #3 leaves no doubt that verily, we were on...
ISAF apparently agrees. Or at least CJTF 82. FINAL UPDATE: 16 insurgents killed and 5 detained after a targeted attack against Bagram.
Or maybe some days they are more important than others? :wry:
I like this description:
Is that policy, or "opinions he expresses here are his own"?
Yes, was keeping it to a broad hypothetical starting point. From that point there are as many examples as there are soldiers. Didn't mean to imply anything's simple or easy.
Hypothetically, is...
A quote from the first news story I saw on the topic:
And a more recent one from General McChrystal:
And one from Rush Limbaugh
Have you seen Brzezinski's 1998 interview?
Doesn't get quite the attention "Charlie Wilson's War" does. The power of film, perhaps?
I'm trying to remember if the Soviet invasion (while...
Not defending Karzai, and claiming no expertise here, just offering up for comment a few things that cross my mind when I see discussions like this one.
One: It's frequently asserted (including...
As for context, here's a bit more. I'm going to go "bigger picture" here. Elsewhere in this thread are links to David Finkel's observations on events of the day, he's done a fine job of providing...
From MountainRunner's post:
Elsewhere in this thread others have raised the (valid) question "how many insurgents did we create that day?" Whatever figure answers that, it's lower by far than the...
...I was with a different one in Baghdad in 2007. For perspective, David Finkel's book (I've read it - his "objectivity" is debatable, but the book is decidedly not "pro war") mentioned previously in...
That's the Marine Corps Times headline.
"The investigation found a slew of mistakes," we are told. Among them, key senior personnel “were not continuously present in the operations center” - and...
Caption: A first responder to a lone gunman's attack at Fort Hood Nov. 5 renders honors at retreat after aiding his fellow soldiers. U.S. Army photo.
But I fear we're going to soon have something called "Pre-TSD" as an identified psychiatric condition.
MikeF, I think there will be much chicken/egg debate regarding the doc. But I'd like to hear...
Longer bio.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/225310
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RraLw0MIeY&feature=player_embedded
That's the first ten minutes of episode one. You'll find the remander linked on the right side of the page if you'd like to see...
One more
Apologies for excerpt length - State Dept presser:
CNN:
AFP:
PBS
...funny how long some things take to "make the papers".
Eaton on Iraq, to the the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, September 2006: "We are, conservatively, 60,000 soldiers short".
Eaton on Iraq, May 2007: "Now our military is overcommitted, and...
...that troops were still at Keating (and other remote locales) because a final decision on strategy/resources had not yet been made. The plan to depart those locations goes back a ways (iirc one...