30-06-2010, 01:12 PM
LARA LOGAN: Well, it really depends on the circumstances. It’s hard to know here. Michael Hastings, if you believe him, says that there were no ground rules laid out. And, I mean, that just doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me, because if you look at the people around General McChrystal, if you look at his history, he was the Joint Special Operations commander. He has a history of not interacting with the media at all. And his chief of intelligence, Mike Flynn, is the same. I mean, I know these people. They never let their guard down like that. To me, something doesn’t add up here. I just—I don’t believe it. [emphasis added]
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So far, so good, baby. But those who do not understand deep political structures, strategies, and tactics are doomed to support them.
Of course it doesn't add up! How could such deep currents be fathomable by "mainstream" waders?
"These people" were in complete control of what they told Hastings, and they got precisely what they were expecting.
Everything was just hunkey-dorey in Afghanistan. But hey, da general fucked up and had to go. So let's resurrect Betrayus and ... ya know, while we're at it, why not make a few flea-fart changes to how we're winning the snots and minds of the Afghans.
And how about that Oreo-in-Chief, swingin' his thing and smackin' the general off-side the helmet with it! He da man!
Welcome to the Gulf of Pigs.
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So far, so good, baby. But those who do not understand deep political structures, strategies, and tactics are doomed to support them.
Of course it doesn't add up! How could such deep currents be fathomable by "mainstream" waders?
"These people" were in complete control of what they told Hastings, and they got precisely what they were expecting.
Everything was just hunkey-dorey in Afghanistan. But hey, da general fucked up and had to go. So let's resurrect Betrayus and ... ya know, while we're at it, why not make a few flea-fart changes to how we're winning the snots and minds of the Afghans.
And how about that Oreo-in-Chief, swingin' his thing and smackin' the general off-side the helmet with it! He da man!
Welcome to the Gulf of Pigs.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene