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Brilliant Biden on Afghanistan
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"Can I just clarify a factual point? How much will we spend this year on Afghanistan?" Someone provided the figure: $65 billion. "And how much will we spend on Pakistan?" Another figure was supplied: $2.25 billion. "Well, by my calculations that's a 30-to-1 ratio in favor of Afghanistan. So I have a question. Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?" The ...
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Weekly Standard Blog —
"President Obama looks to have been taken to the cleaners by the Russians."
Daniel Inouye, head of the all-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, backs McChrystal.
Leader of "reality-based community" says Biden should resign in protest over Afghan escalation.
Reuel Gerecht on the "neo-Taliban."
Israeli Embassy: J Street could "impair Israel's interests."
Max Boot on how we can win in Afghanistan.
Michael Rubin wonders if Kurdish corruption snagged Peter Galbraith. ...
Robert Byrd launches Afghan war warning blast at Obama
Top of the Ticket —
... President Joe Biden opposes any more troops. In fact, at least one prominent blogger suggests that if Obama does dispatch reinforcements, Biden should resign the vice presidency. ...
John Hanlon: Major liberal blogger calls for the resignation of Joe Biden?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
It looks like Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of the Huffington Post, may actually be supporting the resignation of Vice President Joe Biden. In a new piece on her website , Huffington wrote about the reasons why Biden should abandon his current position. In her piece, Huffington does not say that Biden should resign because of his performance as vice president or the verbal gaffes that he is known for. Rather, she states that he should resign out of principle if Obama ultimately escalates the War in Afghanistan. She wrote the following about Biden: What he must not do is ...
Esteemed Foreign Policy Adviser Calls for Biden's Resignation
JammieWearingFool —
Who knows, maybe this ditz is angling for the job herself. File this one under the you've got to be kidding me file. I have no doubt that Joe Biden is a loyal guy -- the question is who deserves his loyalty most? His "team" isn't the White House, but the whole country. And if it becomes clear in the coming days that his loyalty to these two teams is in conflict, he should do the right thing. And quit. Obama may be no drama, but Biden loves drama. And what could more dramatic than resigning the vice presidency on principle? And what principle could be more honorable than ...
NOLA Bound: Searching for presidential leadership -- again -- on health care
The Note —
... "Well, how about making the mea culpa unnecessary?" Huffington writes. "Instead of saving it for the book, how about future author Biden unfetter his conscience in real time -- when it can actually do some good? If Biden truly believes that what we're doing in Afghanistan is not in the best interests of our national security -- and what issue is more important than that? -- it's simply not enough to claim retroactive righteousness in his memoirs." ...
ChickenHawk Arianna Huffington Calls For Biden To Resign
Pirate's Cove —
... Joe Biden met with CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus this morning to talk about Afghanistan — an issue that has pushed the vice president into the spotlight, landing him on the cover of the latest Newsweek. ...
ChickenHawk Arianna Huffington Calls For Biden To Resign
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on October 15, 2009 This could get fun Joe Biden met with CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus this morning to talk about Afghanistan — an issue that has pushed the vice president into the spotlight, landing him on the cover of the latest Newsweek . I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign. Now, why would he do that, Arianna? The centerpiece of ...
Raising the Stakes -- By: Mark Steyn
The Corner on National Review Online —
I'm impressed anyone could type this with a straight face:
If President Barack Obama escalates the “disastrous” war in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington has some advice for Vice President Joe Biden: resign.
Actually, the way Arianna puts it is even funnier:
I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign. ...
Call for Joe Biden’s Resignation…
Say Anything —
Arianna Huffington:
I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign.
To be sure, Arianna is just parroting the anti-war Left’s talking points, which stand in rich contrast to remarks made by our Commander-in-Chief just a few short weeks ago:
This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger ...
Arianna on Biden, w/ a bonus from Markos
MyDD —
Arianna over at Huffington Post has this 'quote' from Biden: "Can I just clarify a factual point? How much will we spend this year on Afghanistan?" Someone provided the figure: $65 billion. "And how much will we spend on Pakistan?" Another figure was supplied: $2.25 billion. ...
When She’s Right, She’s Right!
Jules Crittenden —
... Arianna Huffington says Joe Biden should resign over Afghanistan. Agreed! The strategy he is carrying the torch for is moronic! Hang on, that’s not exactly how Huffington puts it. She wants him to fall on his sword as a matter of principle if Obama actually pays attention to his generals. First miscalculation, the notion that Biden is in any way inclined to act on principle. No, wait a minute … first miscalculation, the idea that Biden’s latest miscalculation makes any sense. No, wait a minute … I dunno, both good choices. Biden makes a pretty good banner waver for Huffington ...
Arianna Huffington: Biden Should Resign?
The Caucus —
Using her giant platform on the Web, Arianna Huffington’s call for Vice President Joseph R. Biden to resign over his reservations on Afghanistan strategy is certainly generating buzz and fueling the left-leaning angst over any escalation of troops in the region. Citing Mr. Biden’s role as chief administration skeptic for a troop buildup during all the war sessions occurring within the White House, Ms. Huffington suggests he should resign if President Obama decides to increase the number of soldiers heading to Afghanistan. (Peter Baker, one of our White House correspondents, ...
Human Rights Groups Unhappy With Nobel Laureate's Sudan Appeasement
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Apparently Vietor has been tasked with handing out gold stars and cookies to administration officials who excel at the appeasement and coddling of rogue states, human rights abusers, and war criminals. Per Arianna on Biden, maybe it's time for Vietor to resign in protest against this administration's inaction in the face of genocide in Darfur. ...
The Unthinkable Victory
Dean's World —
... This is all lending an odd, even surreal quality to the Afghanistan debate, where the “surrender now!” coalition (largely composed of people who, like Obama, vehemently insisted for years that our conflict in the Hindu Kush was the really important war that Bush should have been focused on) assiduously avoid mentioning (or, presumably, even thinking about) the awful reality of the profound, thoroughgoing American victory in Iraq they all said was impossible or even undesirable. ...
Stay the course, Joe Biden
The Reaction —
... I realize that Arianna is being somewhat facetious in calling on Vice President Biden to resign in principle over his objection to an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, but my advice to Biden would be to continue to speak out in support of his principles, and of his current position, from within the administration, where he can still impact policy. Ultimately, one would expect Biden to put loyalty before principle and accept Obama's decision. Until then, though, he ought to remain the vocal skeptic that he has become. We need him as close to the Oval Office as ...
The Unthinkable Victory
Classical Values —
... -- the lowest ever recorded. This is all lending an odd, even surreal quality to the Afghanistan debate, where the "surrender now!" coalition (largely composed of people who, like Obama, vehemently insisted for years that our conflict in the Hindu Kush was the really important war that Bush should have been focused on) assiduously avoid mentioning (or, presumably, even thinking about) the awful reality of the profound, thoroughgoing American victory in Iraq they all said was impossible or even undesirable. For them, Iraq is still literally the unthinkable victory. If they ...
Biden Right on AfPak
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Ariana Huffington has generated quite a bit of buzz for her unlikely-to-be-taken suggestion that Vice President Biden resign in protest if President Obama sends more troops to Afghanistan. The cuteness of the suggestion has unfortunately overshadowed the opening paragraph in Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas’ Newsweek piece on “A Day in the Life of Joe Biden” (HTML title: “Joe Biden, White House Truth Teller”): ...
Respectfully, I disagree
The Reaction —
... That said, today I read a troubling piece from one of the limelight A-list bloggers for the Progressive movement, Arianna Huffington. I distrust Ms Huffington, who was stridently conservative before she was stridently liberal (as was David Brock, among others). I find that over the past five years or so she has become more trustworthy, but being paranoid like I am, I still take her with a grain of salt. ...
Actor Richard Belzer: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck 'Fascist Stooges'; Fox News Called 'Racist,' 'Misogynistic'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... was no different. First it tackled the issues of the day, like Arianna Huffington's take on whether or not Vice President Joe Biden should resign based on what President Barack Obama does in Afghanistan. Then Behar and her two guests, actor and left-wing activist Richard Belzer and New York Daily News Columnist Liz Benjamin discussed Rush Limbaugh's failed effort to buy a stake in the NFL's St. Louis Rams and the feud between Fox News and the White House. ...
Why Arianna Doesn't Get It
Commondreams.org Views —
I admire Arianna Huffington. She is a strong, bold voice in our media firmament. But in the last few days, she has advanced an idea which, in my view, is wrong. She is urging Vice President Biden to resign if the Obama administration ignores his proposal to concentrate on counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Arianna argues that by doing so, Biden would be following in the hallowed tradition of US officials, like Elliot Richardson and Cyrus Vance, who resigned for reasons of principle. Richardson resigned after refusing to fire Archibald Cox; he did so ...
