The war turned around as soon as Rumsfeld was kicked to the curb. Gates seems to be doing a good job. I’m very glad that despite Obama’s massive liabilities on economics, he is getting decent marks from his defense team, so far.
Nah. On matters of Israel, Iran and our mortal enemies from abroad, Iraq is the only feather in the cap for Gates.
How can a Chicago thug like Dumbo be “analytical” when he thought Iowa was Ottawa, canada?
By then the military had come up to speed with Arabic speakers, getting ten's of intel units the year or two to build up networks, meshing together Army/CIA/NSA units, bribes..... Can't remember the guy that pushed, pulled, kicked, had acerbic questions getting the military/security bureaucracy to get it's ass in gear. Maybe Tinkerbell.
Obama plans on cutting Defense Spending, which will certainly lessen his popularity with his defesne team.