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Great. Obama's National Security Advisor Publicly Undercuts The General Obama Selected in Afghanistan
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Great. Obama's National Security Advisor Publicly Undercuts The General Obama Selected in Afghanistan A sadly familiar refrain . President Obama's National Security Adviser James L. Jones suggested Sunday that the public campaign being conducted by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan on behalf of his war strategy is complicating the internal White House review now underway, saying that "it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command." Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who commands the 100,000 U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, warned bluntly last ...
McChrystal Faulted On Troop Statements - Public Campaign Hurts Review, Aide Says
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... McChrystal and his military superiors to broaden the range of alternatives for how best to proceed in Afghanistan as the strategy review unfolds over the coming weeks. "We will be examining different options," said Jones, a retired Marine general and former supreme allied commander in Europe. "And I'm sure General McChrystal and General Petraeus and Admiral Mullen will be willing to present different options and different scenarios in this discussion that we're having." Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, October 5, 2009
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... Politico’s Harry Siegel: “Jones: ‘Important’ Karzai ‘seen as legitimate’” LINK
The Washington Times' Tom LoBianco: “Afghan attacks add to call for more troops” LINK
The Hill's Michael O'Brien: “House liberals float bill to bar 'surge' of troops for Afghanistan” LINK
The Washington Post’s Joshua Partlow and Greg Jaffe: “Deadly Attack By Taliban Tests new Strategy” LINK
The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson:”McChrystal Faulted On Troop Statements” LINK
USA Today’s Susan Page: “Security adviser downplays call for additional Afghan Troops” ...
Capital Crunch: Obama confronts waning political capital
The Note —
... The public debate continues: "National security adviser James L. Jones suggested Sunday that the public campaign being conducted by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan on behalf of his war strategy is complicating the internal White House review underway, saying that ‘it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command,' " The Washington Post's Scott Wilson reports. "One question at the core of the debate is whether the military benefit of sending additional U.S. combat forces to Afghanistan would outweigh the propaganda victory such a ...
McChrystal's Assault on the Chain of Command and the Constitution - and the Need for Pushback
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... Finally, and perhaps most significantly, Obama National Security adviser Jim Jones appeared on CNN this weekend and pushed back at McChrystal on constitutional and policy grounds. Here's an excerpt of the Washington Post's dispatch: ...
Hiding Behind Synonyms: Obama Begins Campaign to Throw Gen. McChrystal Under the Bus
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... must happen. Dionne is signaling that it will happen. He is floating, in this trial balloon, the idea that we are wasting our time in Afghanistan and that we should be prepared to treat all wars on the same budgetary footing — especially morally equivalent wars that are, to the left, of even greater importance.
For this to happen, the White House must undermine popular General Petraeus and paint General McChrystal as insubordinate and out of control.
The White House is already starting the machine.
First, they are ignoring Petraeus. Second, ...
David Sirota: McChrystal's Assault on the Chain of Command and the Constitution - and the Need for Pushback
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... Finally, and perhaps most significantly, Obama National Security adviser Jim Jones appeared on CNN this weekend and pushed back at McChrystal on constitutional and policy grounds. Here's an excerpt of the Washington Post's dispatch: ...
State of the Union: National Security Adviser Jones Chides McChrystal
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... of the world from Jim Jones. National Security Adviser Chides McChrystal : President Obama's National Security Adviser James L. Jones suggested Sunday that the public campaign being conducted by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan on behalf of his war strategy is complicating the internal White House review now underway, saying that "it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command." Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who commands the 100,000 U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, warned bluntly last week in a London speech that a strategy for defeating ...
Obama vs. the Generals
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... A piece by Scott Wilson in today’s WaPo continues that theme under the more benign headline “McChrystal Faulted On Troop Statements.” ...
Free General McChrystal
The American Spectator —
... about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. "It's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command," counsels the National Security Adviser, General James L. Jones. "It is imperative," ...
Pulling Threads: Afghanistan
Firedoglake —
... This is the outlook that seems to be gaining support inside the White House, as more and more insiders come around to the pessimistic view of Vice President Joe Biden (here’s a nice precis of the major White House players and their views on Afghanistan). Other Democrats, like Robert Byrd (who made his first appearance on the Senate floor in a month to speak against mission creep in the war effort) and Jane Harman have pulled away from any escalation.
There are actually a variety of policy options in between major ...
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