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American Forces Press Service BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Oct. 23, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today he’s encouraged by unofficial endorsements NATO defense ministers are expressing for Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s strategy proposals for Afghanistan, along with indications they’re ...
themoderatevoice.com - 10/23/2009
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Reports from Bratislava, Slovakia, today indicate NATO defense
ministers support Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendations to increase counterinsurgency...
strategy, nation building and additional troops in Afghanistan. Easy for them to say. More than two-thirds of the 28-country NATO ...
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NATO Ministers Support McChrystal — Easy For Them To Say
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Bob Gates' Bad Bet
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... happy and not knowing much of anything else. Every time he makes a public announcement you get a good feel for who talked to him last, his boss or his underlings. He is, for the most part, a stooge for his long war flag and general officers: David Petraeus, Ray Odierno, Mike Mullen and Stan McChrystal. On occasion, he’ll take direction from above—when he absolutely has to. He’s a wind-direction checker and a tealeaf reader who butters both sides of his bread. According to the American Forces Press Service , a branch of the Pentagon’s propaganda ministry, Gates finds it “very ...
Bob Gates’ Bad Bet
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... happy and not knowing much of anything else. Every time he makes a public announcement you get a good feel for who talked to him last, his boss or his underlings. He is, for the most part, a stooge for his long war flag and general officers: David Petraeus, Ray Odierno, Mike Mullen and Stan McChrystal. On occasion, he’ll take direction from above — when he absolutely has to. He’s a wind-direction checker and a tealeaf reader who butters both sides of his bread. According to the American Forces Press Service , a branch of the Pentagon’s propaganda ministry, Gates finds it ...
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