I especially like this 1999 quotation from Robert Gates, Dubya’s nominee to replace Rumsfeld: “CIA had important successes in covert action. Perhaps the most consequential of all was Afghanistan where CIA, with its management, funnelled billions of dollars in supplies and weapons to the mujahideen, and the resistance was thus able to fight the vaunted Soviet army to a standoff and eventually force a political decision to withdraw.”
Yep — that’s the kind of bold, far-sighted thinking the USA needs!
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There are no American tanks in Baghdad. The infidels are running scared!
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 9:12 pm ¶1) stale feeds, blah, blah, blah
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 10:11 pm ¶2) OMGLOL HYSTERICAL!
that’s funny, I just read a Slate article today about how some Army magazine called for his resignation. About time.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 10:16 pm ¶Actually it was the Army, Navy and Air Force Times, in an unprecedented joint editorial.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 10:34 pm ¶I tried to find the link but couldn’t =/ Thanks for the correction!
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 10:44 pm ¶And the Marine Corps Times.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 11:09 pm ¶From http://gerald-duck.livejournal.com/297263.html -
I especially like this 1999 quotation from Robert Gates, Dubya’s nominee to replace Rumsfeld: “CIA had important successes in covert action. Perhaps the most consequential of all was Afghanistan where CIA, with its management, funnelled billions of dollars in supplies and weapons to the mujahideen, and the resistance was thus able to fight the vaunted Soviet army to a standoff and eventually force a political decision to withdraw.”
Yep — that’s the kind of bold, far-sighted thinking the USA needs!
Posted 09 Nov 2006 at 4:10 am ¶But you did read the Fox News headline in that screenshot, right? :)
Posted 09 Nov 2006 at 10:45 am ¶oh lol, not til just now
Posted 09 Nov 2006 at 10:58 am ¶Well, yeah. After all, they consider their reporting “fair and balanced.” I bet tomorrow they do a report on how Ann Coulter isn’t a criminal.
*sigh*
Media like this (and people like Coulter, Bush and Rumsfeld) make me really embarassed to be American.
Posted 09 Nov 2006 at 4:03 pm ¶