Anyone who wants to get their engines revved today, might want to check out a few minutes of Mark Levin's show yesterday when you can... huge verbal explosion, complete with promises to sue The Waxman for millions for stepping outside his constitutional role.
Opens in Windows Media Player for me, and it's about 5-6 mins. into the show .. and awesome.
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Dear Rush,
If you didn't see or read the transcript of Charlie Rose's interview of Australian counterinsurgency expert, David Kilcullen, Gen. David Petraeus' senior counterinsurgency advisor, you'll want to.
I saw most of it .. he's a brilliant, looks like a kid, and brings the full dose of reality about the great skill of Gen. Petraeus and the purposeful new strategies that are the heart of the progress we're seeing in Iraq.
A classic volley:
"DAVID KILCULLEN: It was a natural falling out of just losing control. And I think what that tells you is that focusing the campaign on how to defeat one particular enemy is perhaps not the best way to approach it.
Conventional warfare is binary. Right? It has two sides. And its enemy- centric. What you're trying to do is figure out what the enemy is trying to do and defeat the enemy by, you know, outmaneuvering them or removing their war-making power, basically.
Counterinsurgency is not like that. It's not enemy-centric. It's actually population-centric. And I think we have found over the last three or four years of evolution of the conflict in Iraq that the more we focus on the population and protecting them, the easier it is to deal with the enemy. The more we focus on the enemy, the harder it is to actually get anything done with the population.
***Would you like me to expand on that? Because you're frowning.***
CHARLIE ROSE: No, no, I'm fascinated by it and I'm trying to -- I'm asking all questions, as you say, like, you know, is the surge about getting at the population?
DAVID KILCULLEN: Absolutely.
CHARLIE ROSE: Is that what the surge is about?
DAVID KILCULLEN: That's fundamentally what the surge is about. And I know you had General Petraeus on the program recently.
CHARLIE ROSE: Right.
DAVID KILCULLEN: So I don't think I need to go over what he said in detail, but the point is, we have 28,500 extra troops in country. That is a tool. That's not the strategy. Once getting them in, the strategy was to start protecting the population and focusing on marginalizing the enemy from the population."
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It's long, but incredibly eyeopening.
Hello.
I heard part of Mark's stuff last night. He was truly on fire!!
Thanks for the link. I'm listening right now. I like this re Waxman: "Let me tell you something, Henry. I don't back down."
I hope Levin is true to his word. I hope he takes this to court.
Thanks for the links!
Charlie asks incredibly stolid questions but it does indeed sound like a fascinating interview.