Comments on: One More Step Toward Dismantling The Empire http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2009/10/06/one-more-step-toward-dismantling-the-empire/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The General Has Spoken - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2009/10/06/one-more-step-toward-dismantling-the-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-2403 The General Has Spoken - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:32:16 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1096#comment-2403 [...] McChrystal had some positive things to say about the administration’s effort toward “rapproachment with Iran” and the helpful role Iran could play in helping stabilize Afghanistan. In addition to being [...] [...] McChrystal had some positive things to say about the administration’s effort toward “rapproachment with Iran” and the helpful role Iran could play in helping stabilize Afghanistan. In addition to being [...]

]]> By: Adam01 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2009/10/06/one-more-step-toward-dismantling-the-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-2398 Adam01 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:27:19 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1096#comment-2398 “No, I will not succumb to neocon flattery like Petraeus, I support ending the American Raj and the opening with Iran necessary to do so.” I think you're assuming too much here. Are we really to assume that his Af-Pak assessment was just a round about way of highballing the matter so that the Obama takes the opposite tack? Wouldn't a more direct and effective way to accomplish the "ending of the American Raj" have been a report to the president that flat out concluded that there are no achievable goals in Afghanistan, we will end up staying there for decades and accomplish nothing, and, BTW, bombing Iran will make a 99.99% impossible task 100% impossible. It would seem that that sort of an assessment from Obama's hand picked general would have carried much more weight. Don't get me wrong, I welcomed McChrystal's candor on how monumentally stupid it would be to bomb Iran, but the idea of this being some rope a dope doesn't scan. “No, I will not succumb to neocon flattery like Petraeus, I support ending the American Raj and the opening with Iran necessary to do so.”

I think you’re assuming too much here. Are we really to assume that his Af-Pak assessment was just a round about way of highballing the matter so that the Obama takes the opposite tack? Wouldn’t a more direct and effective way to accomplish the “ending of the American Raj” have been a report to the president that flat out concluded that there are no achievable goals in Afghanistan, we will end up staying there for decades and accomplish nothing, and, BTW, bombing Iran will make a 99.99% impossible task 100% impossible. It would seem that that sort of an assessment from Obama’s hand picked general would have carried much more weight.

Don’t get me wrong, I welcomed McChrystal’s candor on how monumentally stupid it would be to bomb Iran, but the idea of this being some rope a dope doesn’t scan.

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