Posted by Sigismund on March 14, 2009, at 19:52:22
In reply to Re: War on two fronts » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on March 14, 2009, at 18:31:25
One positive in this situation is Obama's offer of a new start with the Muslim world. As well, I found this in Rashid's book about Joe Biden, from around 2002, about the reliance the US was placing in the warlords in Afghanistan...
>Some legislators realised the the great dangers posed by Rumsfeld's policy. Joe Biden warned 'America has replaced the Taliban with the warlords. Warlords are still on the US payroll but that hasn't brought a cessation of violence. Not only is the US failing to rein in the warlords, we are actually making them the centrepiece of our strategy. Why does the Administration steadfastly resist any expansion of the International Security Assistance Force when everyone has called for an expansion of the ISAF?'
Rumsfeld, for his part infuriated Biden and other senators, and the Afghans, by saying the warlords would share power with the government.>footnote......have you kept up with Jon Stewart's eviseration (gutting) of CNBC? It is wonderful!
Nope, I don't know anything about it. I hardly know what CNBC is. A media network?
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