Gates and the urge to surge
Common Dreams
by Ray McGovern
11/23/08
It may become a biennial ritual. Every two years, if the commander-in-chief (or the commander-in-chief-elect) says he wants to throw more troops into an unwinnable war for no clear reason other than his political advantage, panderer-in-chief Robert Gates will shout ‘Outstanding!’ Never mind what the commanders in the field are saying — much less the troops who do the dying. After meeting in Canada on Friday with counterparts from countries with troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Gates emphasized to reporters there is a shared interest in ’surging as many forces as we can’ into Afghanistan before the elections there in late September 2009. At the concluding news conference, Gates again drove home the point, ‘It’s important that we have a surge of forces.’ Basking in the alleged success of the Iraq ’surge,’ Gates knows a winning word when he hears one — whether the facts are with him or not...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/23
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Gates
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
by Ray McGovern
11/23/08
It may become a biennial ritual. Every two years, if the commander-in-chief (or the commander-in-chief-elect) says he wants to throw more troops into an unwinnable war for no clear reason other than his political advantage, panderer-in-chief Robert Gates will shout ‘Outstanding!’ Never mind what the commanders in the field are saying — much less the troops who do the dying. After meeting in Canada on Friday with counterparts from countries with troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Gates emphasized to reporters there is a shared interest in ’surging as many forces as we can’ into Afghanistan before the elections there in late September 2009. At the concluding news conference, Gates again drove home the point, ‘It’s important that we have a surge of forces.’ Basking in the alleged success of the Iraq ’surge,’ Gates knows a winning word when he hears one — whether the facts are with him or not...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/23
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Gates
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
rudkla - 24. Nov, 10:09
