Young Hamlet's Agony

EmptyTimCup · 10-10-2009, 07:08 AM

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Young Hamlet's Agony
By Charles Krauthammer

Yet his commander in chief, young Hamlet, frets, demurs, agonizes. His domestic advisers, led by Rahm Emanuel, tell him if he goes for victory, he'll become LBJ, the domestic visionary destroyed by a foreign war. His vice president holds out the chimera of painless counterterrorism success.

Against Emanuel and Biden stand David Petraeus, the world's foremost expert on counterinsurgency (he saved Iraq with it), and Stanley McChrystal, the world's foremost expert on counterterrorism. Whose recommendation on how to fight would you rely on?

Less than two months ago -- Aug. 17 in front of an audience of veterans -- the president declared Afghanistan to be "a war of necessity." Does anything he says remain operative beyond the fading of the audience applause?

*twinoaks207* ^(Premo) · 10-10-2009, 11:30 AM

"Young HAMlet" I love it!!

edinsomd · 10-10-2009, 12:46 PM

Read it's stinging entirety here---> washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

10-10-2009, 12:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
edinsomd CBR1100XX Pilot Member Since: Sep 2006 Location: callaway Posts: 1,835	Read it's stinging entirety here---> washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines __________________ "... the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
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