Guess Who Loves Mr Obama’s War?
Posted by Scott Lucas in Afghanistan, India & Pakistan, US Foreign Policy
Honourable Mention
Preacher of US hyper-power Robert Kagan:
Hats off to President Obama for making a gutsy and correct decision on Afghanistan.
Bronze Medal
Bush Administration spinner Peter Wehner posts on the Commentary blog:
The fact that the remarkable [General David] Petraeus is (among others) overseeing things is a source of comfort and confidence.
Silver Medal
Military sychophant of the year David Brooks writes in The New York Times after his Pentagon-guided tour of Afghanistan:
The Afghans are warm and welcoming. They detest the insurgents and root for American success….We’re already well through the screwing-up phase of our operation….The people who work here make an overwhelming case that Afghanistan can become a functional, terror-fighting society and that it is worth sending our sons and daughters into danger to achieve this.
And the Gold Medal Goes To….
Michael Goldfarb blogs on the Weekly Standard website:
I asked the boss for a reaction to the Afghan speech. He said he would have framed a few things differently, but his basic response was: “All hail Obama!”
Mr Goldfarb’s boss is failed New York Times columnist Mr William Kristol.
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Eighteen hours since Barack Obama laid out the strategy by which the United States will defeat Al Qa’eda and “terrorists” in Afghanistan, 24 hours after we projected both the Administration’s approach and the problems with it, I have to say….
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