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Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?
Ray McGovern/Antiwar
It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired the famous Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.
In my view, Obama should fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
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Poland and US
Poland may be involved in US missile defense in Europe after all, as Poland could host SM-3 interceptors targeting short and medium-range missiles.
Colombia and US
Cocaine kingpin Diego Montoya, the one-time head of Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel, apologized in a U.S. court to the victims of drug violence and was sentenced on Wednesday [...]
Posted in Bases, Created Terror, Drugwar, Europe, Middle East, Money, Oil and Resources, Shorter Question Everything Also tagged Afghanistan, Citibank, Colombia, Oil, Poland, US Leave a comment
Hersh: Military waging war with White House
By Neil Offen / Herald Sun
DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s most renowned investigative journalist says.
The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in [...]
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Think Progress: The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)’s solution to dealing with Pelosi (who isn’t super eager about sending more troops to Afghanaistan and has the gall to say so)? It wants McChrystal to “put her in her place“.
Crooks and Liars: The parents of slain Army Ranger and NFL star Pat Tillman voiced concerns Tuesday [...]
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