I just finished it and am still digesting a great deal of it. It really bothers me that we are seeing so many highly placed people jumping ship, and true to character, Premier Hussein is keeping his inner circle as intact as he can, and has no intention of trying to play nice with either the Pentagon or the Republicans. The people who got him elected are leaving with little more than an “AMF, YOYO”...
It is very clear from Woodward’s book that Hussein’s single biggest objective in Afghanistan is to get out as quickly as he can. There is a major review of the entire effort coming up this December, and look for that review to be Hussein’s excuse to cut and run from Afghanistan next June.
The other troubling problem that Woodward documents is how intractable the Pakistani Government is. They are so focused on India as their mortal enemy that they are blind to the activities of their own intelligence service who are openly supporting and enabling the Taliban.
God help us all when the terrorists finally find someone competent...
the only one left in the bam’s inner circle out of the three is Jarrett and she’s been labelled “the other half of his brain” (TIME Magazine)
the only one left in the bam’s inner circle out of the three is Jarrett and she’s been labelled “the other half of his brain” (TIME Magazine)
So it’s readable? I was considering it the other day, but it sounded like it was going to be propaganda.