Only in Washington DC would you form a Congressional Commission and include not a single retired military officer with Counter Insurgency expereince or any Arab-Persian Political/Cultural Regional Expert on the panel.
Some where the ghost of LBJ is laughing his butt off watching another bunch of DC policy geeks and Beltway insiders trying to micromanage a war from 9,000 miles away
OK, my life is now over. I'm agreeing with MNJohnie.
("Bring in the clowns. There ought to be clowns.")
Some where the ghost of LBJ is laughing his butt off watching another bunch of DC policy geeks and Beltway insiders trying to micromanage a war from 9,000 miles away
Nobody should be laughing. You have pubbies from Sam Brownback to Gordon Smith bailing out on the Administrations' policy. The U.S. doesn't seem to appreciate how serious this is.