They’re trying to lock him in to his decision before he gets wobbly again.
He’s a wobbly weasel to his core. God be
with our troops .. St. Michael, defend
them in battle.
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Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125487333320069331.html
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Excerpt:
The struggle to set the future course of the Afghan war is becoming a battle of two books — both suddenly popular among White House and Pentagon brain trusts.
The two draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War. The first book describes a White House in 1965 being marched into an escalating war by a military viewing the conflict too narrowly to see the perils ahead. President Barack Obama recently finished the book, according to administration officials, and Vice President Joe Biden is reading it now.
The second describes a different administration, in 1972, when a U.S. military that has finally figured out how to counter the insurgency is rejected by political leaders who bow to popular opinion and end the fight.
It has been recommended in multiple lists put out by military officers, including a former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who passed it out to his subordinates.
The two books — “Lessons in Disaster,” on Mr. Obama’s nightstand, and “A Better War” on the shelves of military gurus — have become a framework for the debate over what will be one of the most important decisions of Mr. Obama’s presidency.
On Tuesday, in a White House meeting that went well over its allotted hour, Mr. Obama discussed the war with 31 members of Congress. Republican leaders, and some Democrats, pressed him to quickly accept the judgment of his commanders and send as many as 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But some Democrats asked if the war was winnable.
In Washington, books are flying off shelves. None of the major bookstores near the White House have the recently released paperback edition of “Lessons in Disaster” in stock, and one major shop in the Georgetown area, Barnes & Noble, said all its remaining copies were being held for buyers.
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Video - Washington bureau chief John Bussey discusses two new books with competing Afghanistan narrative on the News Hub.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125487333320069331.html#
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Influencing his arguments, I’m sure .. and since
he’s so ‘scholarly’ and so weak, he’s probably
been cowed even more ... damn him.