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Failures In Afghanistan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
By Patrick Appel Ahmed Rashid recently sat down with Scott Horton to talk about Afghanistan and Pakistan: The United States never deemed it necessary to provide enough ground troops in the first place, so it became necessary to use excessive air power to avoid U.S. casualties—the force Rumsfeld had committed was far too small to secure Afghanistan after 2001, much less to deal with the Taliban insurgency after 2003. Rumsfeld refused to deploy more troops because of the need for more troops in Iraq. Even when NATO forces came in the ...
Failures In Afghanistan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
By Patrick Appel Ahmed Rashid recently sat down with Scott Horton to talk about Afghanistan and Pakistan: The United States never deemed it necessary to provide enough ground troops in the first place, so it became necessary to use excessive air power to avoid U.S. casualties—the force Rumsfeld had committed was far too small to secure Afghanistan after 2001, much less to deal with the Taliban insurgency after 2003. Rumsfeld refused to deploy more troops because of the need for more troops in Iraq. Even when NATO forces came in the ...
Mike’s Blog Round Up
Crooks and Liars —
Scott Horton: Inside the Pakistan-Taliban relationship: Six questions for Ahmed Rashid, author of “Descent Into Chaos.”
Things Younger Than John McCain: The Top 25 Posts
Street Prophets: Religious progressives say the darndest things
Helena Cobban: Defining ‘winning’
David E’s Fablog: In which he explains why Barack Obama is more like Keanu Reeves than Paris Hilton and why John McCain is So F*cking Pathetic.
The Satirical Political Report: Bush’s ...
Lotta links
The Sideshow —
I continue to be concerned about the fact that a significant section of the electorate still thinks right-wing loony J. Sidney McCain is a "moderate". Blue Girl, Red State has moved and is now The Gave Us a Republic When the FCC did the right thing and voted last Friday to uphold the complaint against Comcast for inhibiting file-sharing, were they just trying to forestall a bill on net neutrality? Scott Horton, Inside the Pakistan-Taliban Relationship: Six Questions for Ahmed Rashid, Author of Descent Into Chaos. Mark Adams responds in kind to the GOP tire-gauge gambit. At The ...
New ISI Chief Appointed
Newshoggers.com —
By Cernig
Pakistan's military chief, General Kayani, has made several appointments to consolidate his personal control of the army and, perhaps most importantly, the shadowy ISI intelligence agency. Kayani, who was himself ISI head under Musharraf from 2004 to 2007 before becoming chief of the entire military, has ...
New ISI Chief Appointed
At-Largely —
By Cernig
Pakistan's military chief, General Kayani, has made several appointments to consolidate his personal control of the army and, perhaps most importantly, the shadowy ISI intelligence agency. Kayani, who was himself ISI head under Musharraf from 2004 to 2007 before becoming chief of the entire military, has picked Lt Gen Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as the new head of ISI, advancing him from head of military operations. There, he was responsible for overall control of of offensives which troops began last year against pro-Taleban militants in Swat, Waziristan and other areas of north-west Pakistan - but also in ...
