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2011-09-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Gonna be fascinating to watch this play out. Will Petraeus be able to run COIN against his treacherous and leak-prone subordinates or will the legendary entrenched bureaucracy grind him down. No idea what the over/under is.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-07 00:51|| 2011-09-07 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Petraeus' in unquestionably brilliant, but his brand of "COIN" is failing at an alarming rate. McChristal saw it falling apart. We've squandering billions on schools, make-work projects, and infrastructure. Civil action programs in Afghanistan are an illusion of progress. Afghanistan is not Peoria, it's like no place else on earth. The Pentagon is finally realizing that the only way to deal with the tribal realities of the Taliban is to take down the leadership and the facilitators. We're bailing water out of the boat but only until we can reach the dock and climb to safety. The boat will still sink.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-07 01:04|| 2011-09-07 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The important thing, Petraeus is a principled man.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-07 02:08|| 2011-09-07 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 U.S. General David Petraeus said on Wednesday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fomenting anti-American sentiment due to the perception of U.S. favoritism towards Israel.

Israel is very different from its neighbors Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan or for that matter other Mideast islamic countries. Our relationship with Israel ought to be treated differently.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-09-07 12:13|| 2011-09-07 12:13|| Front Page Top

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