Rejection of Reality
I Reject Your Reality » Dafydd Ab Hugh » Hot Air Green Room
It’s hard to swallow the contention that a former lieutenant general (that’s a 3-banger) in the United States Army would be blissfully unaware of what counterinsurgency strategy is, and how it differs from a counter-terrorism strategy… where we “fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt”. I hope that’s not the problem. But if not, then what makes Eikenberry think he’s more fit to opine on Afghanistan than the general that Barack Obama himself hand-picked to do just that? (And who is, as I understand it, an expert on COIN strategy.)
An interesting take on the apparent disconnect between the average citizen and the people who are currently running our government. It doesn't just deal with the situation in Afghanistan but several things that are contradictory in their stated purpose and what they actually achieve.
Posted Friday 10:07 AM