U.S. Army soldiers move toward their forward operating base after a presence patrol in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua GrenierThe War Addicts: 2016 And Then Some -- Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch
Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye. On Monday, theWashington Post ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book Obama’s Wars, a vivid account of the way the U.S. high command boxed the Commander-in-Chief into the smallest of Afghan corners. As an illustration, the Post included a graphic the military offered President Obama at a key November 2009 meeting to review war policy. It caught in a nutshell the favored “solution” to the Afghan War of those in charge of fighting it -- Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David Petraeus, then-Centcom commander, General Stanley McChrystal, then-Afghan War commander, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, among others.
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My Comment: Tom Engelhardt sometimes has a commentary that is spot on .... this is one of those times. Read it all.