“I have never been a critic of David Petraeus”
Most strange opinion by BooMan. Waiting for David’s new biography written by Holly. In April 2008, Jeff Huber wrote a diary here @BooMan – Pavlov’s Dogs of War Propaganda. Makes a nice read in today’s time frame. About the myth created by and around General David Petraeus …
How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus
By Spencer Ackerman | Nov. 11, 2012 |Petraeus recognized that the spirited back-and-forth that journalists like could be a powerful weapon in his arsenal. “His ability to talk to a reporter for 45 minutes, to flow on the record, to background or off-the-record and back, and to say meaningful things and not get outside the lane too much — it was the best I’ve ever seen,” Mansoor reflects. It paid dividends. On the strength of a single tour running the 101st Airborne in Mosul, Newsweek put the relatively unknown general on its cover in 2004 under the headline “Can This Man Save Iraq?” (It’s the first of three cover stories the magazine wrote about him.) Petraeus’ embrace of counterinsurgency, with its self-congratulatory stylings as an enlightened form of warfare that de-emphasized killing, earned him plaudits as an “intellectual.”
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○ The Helen Thomas Question Obama Fails to Answer
From my diary – Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft and the Land of the Two Rivers.
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Remember President Obama killed Anwar Al-Awlaki by a drone attack in Yemen because of his sermons/broadcasts across the Internet and his magazine Inspire. Assassinate one and a dozen are inspired. Using Israel’s Sharon/Netanyahu as proof of this futile exercise.
