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Agorism
04-20-2011, 07:15 PM
Amateur hour


‘It’s A Mess’: Friction Between Obama And Pentagon Over Libya Policy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/obama-white-house-pentagon_n_851705.html


The White House wanted the Pentagon to come up with a low-cost regime-change plan for Libya. Ideally, this strategy would have toppled Col. Muammar Gaddafi without bogging the U.S. down in another inconclusive foreign adventure. And by no means could the plan have included young American infantrymen advancing under fire across the sand.
The military kept insisting that no such option existed. A real regime-change operation, some officers argued, requires “boots on the ground.” That was a cost the White House, given rising domestic pressure to bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, was unwilling to consider.
In long meetings and email exchanges, arguments over strategic details often led to more serious disagreements, the official told The Huffington Post. The White House thought the Pentagon was disrespecting the president by refusing to propose a politically acceptable action plan, while the Pentagon became furious that White House officials didn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do,’’ the official said.

acptulsa
04-20-2011, 07:17 PM
We allocate you quadzillions, and you don't have a magic wand for me to wave? Wahhh...

VIDEODROME
04-20-2011, 07:18 PM
ffffuuuuuu


This is like something out of Doctor Strangelove

satchelmcqueen
04-20-2011, 07:36 PM
good god!

acptulsa
04-20-2011, 07:40 PM
Typical modern CEO. You're better off clueless. Just throw a big enough hissy fit, and your people will figure out how to do the impossible, right? Except, of course, when it's actually impossible. In which case, there you are with your drawers down, just another emperor with no clothes.

speciallyblend
04-20-2011, 07:47 PM
obama/bush 2012 bring our troops home, suckers!!!

specsaregood
04-20-2011, 07:48 PM
And 37 percent of officers agreed with the statement that, to be respected as commander-in-chief, the president should have served in the military

Dr. Paul, the only presidential candidate that served in the US military.

Brooklyn Red Leg
04-20-2011, 08:05 PM
War being run by the fucking Keystone Cops....