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JamesOTB
JamesOTB posted a blog entry
Obama’s Afghan Deadline: Is it Real?
Last fall, a commenter at Dave Schuler’s Glittering Eye blog made an observation to the effect that Barack Obama’s...
 
Will Johnston
Will Johnston posted a blog entry
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen Totally Look Like Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers from SNL’s Weekend Update
You tell me which one is the Pentagon briefing and which one is Saturday Night Live.Related posts:The Rock ObamaA few too...
 
Neoavatara
Neoavatara posted a blog entry
Throwing Gates Under The Proverbial Bus…
It is funny how fast this administration throws people away when it fits their political expediency.Obama and his...
 
Everything Finance
Everything Finance posted a blog entry
Is The U.S. Now Back Peddling On An Afghan Withdrawal Date?
TROOP LEVELS - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testify before the House Foreign...
 
Pakistan B
Pakistan B posted a blog entry
Ron Paul on Fox Business Obama Preparing for Perpetual War
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teezee
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Arrival of new US forces in Afghanistan to begin in 2-3 weeks
Updated at: 2003 PST, Wednesday, December 02, 2009 WASHINGTON: The first of an additional 30,000 US troops deploying to...
3 days ago ONE NEWS | Topics: Robert Gates
 
Everything Finance
Everything Finance posted a blog entry
Bottom Story For Today
Taliban Vow To Fight US Troop Surge In Afghanistan -- BBCThe Taliban say they will step up their fight in Afghanistan, after...
 
Pierre Rousselin
Pierre Rousselin posted a blog entry
Afghanistan : le pari d'Obama
Barack Obama veut refaire en Afghanistan ce qui a plus ou moins réussi en Irak. Le renfort annoncé de 30.000 hommes est...
 
Asp
Asp posted a blog entry
Obama channels Gates to defend timeline
There may be a bit of Gates-think -- or at least, Gates-speak -- in Obama's response to the chief Republican line of attack on...
 
Alex
Alex posted a blog entry
Lo que no sabemos de Obama
Peer en botija pa’ que retumbeLas palabras de ObamaAntonio PérezRebeliónDesde la noche de los tiempos, todos los...
 
Baltimoron
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The US Army Rubber Camps
Generally, I agree with former George W. Bush administration official, Suhail Khan, that assaulting the loyalty of Muslim...
15 days ago Left Flank | Topics: Books/Movi..., Military, PBS, Politics
 
PhuckPolitics
PhuckPolitics posted a blog entry
Robert Gates is full of shit
So invading two countries on false pretenses, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, increasing infant birth...
 
Bill Tilley
Bill Tilley posted a tweet
Defense Secretary bars public disclosure of detainee abuse photos: [JURIST] US Defense Secretary Robert Gates [.. http://bit.ly/3Ehqq6
 
skwguitar
skwguitar posted a blog entry
Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “Everybody ought to shut up”
Responding rather angrily to questions about the recent Fort Hood shooting and the United States military in Afghanistan,...
 
Asp
Asp posted a blog entry
The incredible shrinking Afghan surge
There was once a series of Peanuts comics in which Snoopy reflected on a tussle with a cat (who ripped him to shreds). In each...
24 days ago xpostfactoid | Topics: Snoopy, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, 40
 
Asp
Asp posted a blog entry
Obama at Fort Hood: Embracing 'The Long War'?
The President at Fort Hood today did not sound like a man planning to scale back American military commitments:This generation...
 
Asp
Asp posted a blog entry
Gates whistles past the graveyard of empires
Robert Gates does not think that sending more troops toAfghanistan will put the U.S. on course to replay the Soviet disaster....
 
Baltimoron
Baltimoron posted a blog entry
Illustrating Path Dependence in a Japanese Idiom
Washington’s continued inability either to stumble upon a strategy for East Asia, or sell whatever bad one it’s got...
33 days ago Left Flank | Topics: East Asia, Military, USA, barack h....
 
alibomaye
alibomaye posted a blog entry
Slate : U.S. to Settle for ‘Good Enough’ in Afghanistan, Making it ‘Look Like Bangladesh’
Senator John Kerry echoed these sentiments at the National Cathedral earlier this month, a statement echoed by his fellow...
 
OthelloBloke
OthelloBloke posted a blog entry
Doubting military commanders
When you have a decorated and dedicated officer such as General McChrystal saying something like he needs an extra 44,000...
 
Bob Kraft
Bob Kraft posted a tweet
Wounded Troops Face Too Much Bureaucracy: In a speech this week Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave his opinion.. http://bit.ly/1sIzj5
 
Mountain Republic
Mountain Republic posted a blog entry
While Obama Fiddles, NATO May Send More Troops To Afghanistan
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that NATO allies are moving toward sending more troops and civilian aid to...
 
Baltimoron
Baltimoron posted a blog entry
Missile Defense = Japan-US Alliance?
There’s a reason I stopped subscribing to The Far Eastern Economic Review – hack jobs like this Michael Auslin...
44 days ago Left Flank | Topics: East Asia, Military, Podcasts, Politics
 
Everything Finance
Everything Finance posted a blog entry
The Growing U.S.-Japan Security Divide
The Widening U.S.-Japan Security Divide -- Wall Street JournalWashington and Tokyo have to focus on protecting their citizens...
 
Rakshail
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Gates to Murtha: Kill the Obamacopter, or the Defense Bill Gets It
The Obama administration is once again issuing veto threats, in order to get its radical overhaul of the Pentagon’s arsenal through Congress.The plan — to cut back several dozen weapons projects that are either behind schedule, over budget, or...
 
<em>jonolan</em>
jonolan posted a blog entry
Pork Processing Plant
In April, 2009, President Obama's Defense Secretary, Robert M. Gates, drafted the proposed 2010 Defense Budget. It was...
 
Everything Finance
Everything Finance posted a blog entry
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials — August 8, 2009
Barack Obama - with his defence secretary Robert Gates - has ruled out cutting the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan or...
 
Briant-Terlet Marc
Briant-Terlet Marc posted a blog entry
Sulfurique 51
Ronald Reagan…Même si à sa mort en 2004, il apparaissait à certains barbichus de gauche façon Laurent Joffrin tel le...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
All Abuzz about Afghanistan
Am I the only one to notice that the media has gone Afghanistan-manic in the past couple of days? Obama is asking everyone's...
 
Everything Finance
Everything Finance posted a blog entry
World News Briefs — October 6, 2009 (Evening Edition)
U.S. President Barack Obama waves to workers during his visit to the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia,...
 
David
David posted a tweet
Mapping @AmanpourCNN's round table with Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates. Join us after the program ends: http://bit.ly/30uXc7 #politics
 
Bob Stapp
Bob Stapp posted a blog entry
Hmmm... Do ya s'pose Gates and the Pentagon are trying to do an end run on Obama's Afghanistan policy review...?
kinda sounds like gates might just be offering his government career up as a whole burnt offering by essentially saying that,...