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2015-04-16 Home Front: WoT

A former top adviser destroyed Obama's Iraq policy in one sentence

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Posted by gorb 2015-04-16 00:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Doffed her lid for the photo op.
Curious how few sidearms are in view.
Looks like a number of different flashes too.
Must be on their way to lunch.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-04-16 01:42|| 2015-04-16 01:42|| Front Page Top

Posted by 2015-04-16 02:17|| 2015-04-16 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Yuuup.

Put another way, the US is SSSHHHH ...CCCCCC helping Iran to become its OWG Co-Superpower Sibling, or one of them - Nukes + Expansive Spheres + all that.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-16 03:09|| 2015-04-16 03:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Ms. Sky sees herself as part aid worker, part political operator, part cultural translator.
“I’m experienced in working in different cultures. The most alien culture I’ve ever worked in is the U.S. military,” she said with characteristic candor. “I was used to working in the humanitarian space, the diplomatic space. I came to Iraq and that space, the military, is all over it.”

Ah. One of those.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-04-16 04:22|| 2015-04-16 04:22|| Front Page Top

#5 So much of what this regime does seems to be aimed at following Iran's lead that I wonder about the direction of the Yemeni civil war.

It's obvious that Iran backs the Houthi but then there are the supposed US connections to the KSA coalition.

Who's doing what to whom over there?

Posted by AlanC 2015-04-16 07:46|| 2015-04-16 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Odierno "wanted US engagement with Iraq to continue for years to come, but led by US civilians, not the military,"

The answer as to why Odierno is still around is obvious.

Posted by Ulique Pelosi8805 2015-04-16 10:30|| 2015-04-16 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Odierno"wanted US engagement with Iraq to continue for years to come, but led by US civilians, not the military,"

Forgetting the success in post war Germany and Japan hinged on the Military Occupation Government running things for 'years' till they determined that condition were adequate for return to a civilian rule. State was subordinate to the War Department (DoD as an entity would be legislated later).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-16 12:28|| 2015-04-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Gee. Sure seem to be a lot of wrong instincts heading towards the same conclusions.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-16 12:34|| 2015-04-16 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 I give up - What's the "one sentence"?

Posted by Bobby 2015-04-16 13:34|| 2015-04-16 13:34|| Front Page Top

#10 "If only Obama had paid attention to Iraq ... But his only interest in Iraq was in ending the war."

Posted by gorb 2015-04-16 15:19|| 2015-04-16 15:19|| Front Page Top

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