Posted on 04/28/2007 12:59:09 PM PDT by neverdem
Bush’s WEAKEST LINKS were Tenet and Powell.
Amen. Believe me, Hillary or ANY Democrat will get rid of EVERYONE!
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion
Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures' This link to the thread of the WaPo post will open on a link to "A failure in generalship" by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, the actual article under discussion. It's an interesting analysis with some unorthodox recommendations. I'll be surprised if we don't hear about this guy with a musical surname again, either as a general or talking head.
From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
It is because of the lack of trust in Mr. Tenet and his group. Everyone involved knew that any ops run through them would shortly be a feature article in the NY or LA Times.
Tenet should have ritually disemboweled himself in the lobby at Langley on 9/12.
A no show on the job, a ho show for the media.
btt
In January 2002, George J. Tenet, the man who oversaw all American spy agencies, was asked by a visiting Italian intelligence official what he knew about United States officials making contact with exiled Iranian opposition figures.
“I shot a look at other members of my staff in the meeting,” Mr. Tenet writes in his newly published memoir. “It was clear that none of us knew what he was talking about.
Road Map for Moderate Network Building in the Muslim World (long read)
RAND Corp. ^ | Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz, Peter Sickle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818382/posts
Posted on 04/16/2007 6:09:23 PM CDT by Valin
Identifying Key Partners and Audiences
A critical part of U.S. network-building efforts, as well as in its broader public diplomacy and strategic communications policy, is identifying key partners and audiences. Difficulties in distinguishing potential allies from adversaries present a major problem to Western governments and organizations attempting to organize support for moderate Muslims. Work done by the RAND Corporation—in Cheryl Benard’s Civil Democratic Islam and Angel Rabasa et al., The Muslim World After 9/11—has begun to lay the framework for identifying ideological tendencies in the Muslim world,1 which is necessary in order to identify the sectors with which the United States and its allies can be most e.ective in promoting democracy and stability to counter the in.uence of extremist and violent groups.
Around the world Muslims differ substantially not only in their religious views, but also in their political and social orientation, including their conceptions of government; their views on the primacy of shari’a (Islamic law) versus other sources of law; their views on human rights, especially the rights of women and religious minorities; and whether they support, justify, or tolerate violence perpetrated in advancement of a political or religious agenda. We refer to these as “marker issues,” and the position of groups or individuals on them allows for a more precise classifcation of these groups in terms of their a.nity for democracy and pluralism.
(snip)
“You have to root out the termites in the babsement as well.”
The bugs are back and stronger than ever it looks like.
If it is true that Tenet was ticked at the VP, then it explains much of the Plame/Wilson affair and how it was condoned/instigated/permitted/orchestrated from the very top echelons of the CIA. Regarding the Yingling essay, I am still digesting it all. Thanks for the ping.
When it comes to key appointments in his administration, I’m sorry to say it, but Bush is a total fool.
He is a nice man, well intentioned, very sound on some of the basic issues, but a political novice. You have to wonder about his advisers as well, to let him make such basic mistakes.
The FBI is just as bad as the CIA, and he has done NOTHING to fix that. Or the Justice Department. Or most other agencies, including that global warming freak who heads his science dept.
.
NEVER FORGET
Praise GOD that...
President BUSH promised...
Freedom’s Return to:
Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba
..as well as..
Freedom’s Arrival to:
All the Countries of the Middle East
...as America’s own best self-protection against future terrorist attacks here at home.
NEVER FORGET
.
"I think that I shall never hear
A poem as lovely as Yuengling Beer..."
(with apologies to Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, author of "Trees", 69th New York Infantry Regiment, KIA, France, 1918)
I can't go that far. Initially, most folks were saying that we had the 'A' Team. He should have made replacements like Lincoln replaced generals. I usually admire loyalty, but I believe GWB's tendency to remain loyal, even after it has brought him trouble, is a fault.
Thanks for the link.
I thought of that beer too! That's one of my former units. At one time, I was the platoon sergeant for the second platoon of A Company before I went to medical school and during the first year. Then I got the scholarship and was transferred to the Army Reserve for the other three years of med school.
SGT Kilmer is honored with a plaque in that unit's armory. There's also a plaque honoring Herman Melville on the same block that the 69th's Armory is on which is between Lexington Ave. and Park Ave. and between 25th St. and 26th St. in Manhattan. IIRC, Melville's plaque is near Park on 26th. Moby Dick was on last night. I haven't seen that since I was a kid. What a movie!
Wow! What a (bunch of) coincidence(s) !!!
I was with HQ & HQ Co., 121st Sig.Bn.,1st ID, but there’s no coincidence there.
You have it. As a result of his hiring policy, Bush had control over no agency except the Department of Defence, and even there control did not extned far enough into the bureaucracy of the Joint Chiefs. Bush had 6000 jobs to hand out and I doubt that he filled half of them with Republicans. Going back to the Civil War, Lincon did not finally get a handle on his war policy until late 1862, when virtually all the officer corps became Republican. War and politics can never be separated.
That was nothing. During the last month I was in Vietnam, June 72, my best friend since first grade was assigned to my rifle company, D 1/7th Cav. Here's a link to the audio of the marching tune of both the 69th Infantry and the 7th Cavalry Regiments, "Garryowen".
It also has the original lyrics and 7th Cavalry Lyrics: "In 1905, Chief Musician J.O. Brockenshire of the Seventh Cavalry Band rewrote the music to "Garryowen" and composed these stanzas and chorus before the regiment deployed to the Philippines."
P.S. I'm sorry for pinging all of you again, but I came across a free download of "Garryowen." If you don't recognize the name, just listen to it. You've most likely heard it, especially on St. Patrick's Day.
P.P.S. Snippy about it, I thought you might enjoy this link!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.