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This is funny and awesome. :-)
This is funny and awesome. :-)
Wow, this is a tough one. McChrystal is unhappy. Now the Big O is unhappy because of the forthcoming Rolling Stone article detailing blunt talk from the Afghan Campaign war leader. If the Big O sacks McChrystal and we lose the war in Afghanistan, it will be completely on Obama. This is a tough situation. If he doesn't sack McChrystal, why in-the-hell did he bring him from around the world for an ass-chewing? Wouldn't his efforts be better served in the war zone and not caught up in political theater or dancing at the whim of Obama? If leadership doesn't get its act together, there are gonna be horrific consequences.
Update: Here's a link to the Rolling Stone article. McChristal is gone. Can't wait for his book to come out. ;-)
The country asks for leadership and we get bravado and vulgarity. I wonder how long it took him to get his lines memorized for the interview and which writer thought it would be a good idea to throw that line out for a sound bite? Jeez.
I have a lot of things to say about this video, but I will let it jell for a while and see what forms. More later.
The first thing I always hear when people question the bailouts and debt is that GW "spent tons of money on the war!" John Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford, stated in the Financial Times that the national debt was ~41% of GDP in both 1988 and 2008. Under the previous administration, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that without policy changes the debt would be ~82% by 2018. But under this administration, that number could be ~100% by 2014. Clearly, all of this debt is not a good thing at all. Yikes!