Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2826
June 23, 2010
If McChrystal Gets The Boot
Live-tweeting on the situation at #McClusterfuck. Ackerman looks at what happens should the general resign:
Training the Afghans to take over security responsibilities is a consensus position within the administration and across party lines in Congress, as it signifies the most likely prospect for extrication from a stable Afghanistan. But there's a lot more work that needs to be done, and the next commander will have to balance how much of his resources he's willing to devote to the training...
The MacArthur Analogy
Peter Beinart nails it:
Truman didn't just fire MacArthur because the general treated him with disrespect. He fired him because MacArthur wanted to do whatever it took to liberate the Korean peninsula, including bombing mainland China, whereas Truman came to realize that Korea must be a limited war, fought merely to preserve South Korean independence. In insisting that America's Cold War strategy be the containment of communism, not the rollback of communism, Truman kept the pursuit of...
How Powerful Is The President?
Greenwald, Chait, and Jonathan Bernstein are in the middle of a three-way cage-match over the question. Chait calls Greenwald "a fanatic" for letting his "sense of betrayal in issue areas where Obama wields tremendous influence to bleed over into issue areas where he does not." Here's the end of Greenwald's response to Chait:
As I've acknowledged from the start, the President does have someconstraints in the area of domestic policy and will not always be ableto move Congress to do what he...
America: Fuck Yeah!
A goal in injury time!
90+1 min: GOAL! USA 1 - Algeria 0 (Donovan '91) USA
counter with
extreme pace, the ball is threaded through to Altidore, it's squared
across
goal, and it's broken free... and THERE HE IS! DONOVAN SLIDES IT HOME!
THE
USA ARE AHEAD!
89 min: I just can't see where the USA goal is coming
from. They're
looking nervy and uncomfortable in front of goal and the heads are
down.
But, there's four minutes of added time.
That's an instant Von Hoffmann right...
South Park Macho
South Park - United States - Blackwater - Stanley McChrystal - Eric Cartman
The Issue Is Not McChrystal. The Issue Is The War.
The one option president Obama never contemplated in reviewing the horrendous Af-Pak inheritance bequeathed by Bush and Cheney was ending the war. This was bizarre since his candidacy would never have occurred without the ill-judged, dreadfully managed and ultimately hopeless wars of occupation and attrition in Iraq and Afghanistan waged by his predecessors. And yet Obama, cautious as ever, ruled real withdrawal out from the get-go. Maybe the risk was too great of a terror attack at home...
Great Moments In Football Commentary
England's ahead 1 - 0. Jonathan Liew, live-blogging:
Dear, oh dear. Rooney's limping. He pulled up a
fraction after
being called offside. He's trying to walk it off, just looks like a
knock at
the moment. That really would put a dead rat in our burger.
USA is seemingly unable to score and thereby headed home as of now.
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