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US generals given baffling PowerPoint presentation to try to explain Afghanistan mess
MailOnline ^
| 28th April 2010
| Mail Foreign Service
Posted on 04/28/2010 10:11:16 AM PDT by skimbell
Its coloured charts, graphs and bullet-points are supposed to make the most incomprehensible data crystal clear. But even the sharpest military minds in American were left baffled by this PowerPoint slide, a mind-boggling attempt to explain the situation in Afghanistan. 'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war..
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; powerpoint
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Check out the flowchart at the link. How in the he11 can anyone expect our miitary to be able to function with fool like we have in charge trying to direct everything.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:11:16 AM PDT
by
skimbell
To: skimbell
Sometimes, technology can be a detriment and not a help. Powerpoint overload is one instance....
To: skimbell
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:15:54 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: skimbell
Looks like something from Gen. Westmoreland.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:16:51 AM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: skimbell
If this is truly how they are fighting this war, we need to get the hell out of Afghanistan. These people will never change and nothing we do will change them. All we are doing is getting our youngsters killed and for what. Remember.....back in 1776, our people fought and died for our country. Today, our kids fight and die for someone else they don’t even have anything in common with and those people really don’t give a dam.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:18:32 AM PDT
by
RC2
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:18:33 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: skimbell
To: thackney
I wonder how much of our tax $$ the Contractor was paid to produce that bowl of spaghetti?
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:20:24 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
To: Dallas59
BLOC Briefing Induced Loss of Consciousness.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:20:51 AM PDT
by
TankerKC
(I think P. T. Barnum had his time off by about 59 seconds.)
To: skimbell
WTH, whoever did this is a moron. I have never seen a flow chart this bad ever!
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:24:26 AM PDT
by
jerri
(Is it over yet?)
To: skimbell
Patton could probably simplify that chart.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:25:47 AM PDT
by
marron
To: jerri
Worst. PowerPoint. Ever.
Epic Fail
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:27:05 AM PDT
by
Falcon28
(Allen West - 2012 * For a list of conservative candidates in 2010, see my profile)
To: skimbell
Makes perfect sense to me...
What strikes you as so complicated or incomprehensible? They have just tried to label every significant area or measure determining the outcome of the conflict, and then link those directly related to each other. As a means of trying to spot key bottlenecks or focus areas.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:27:25 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: marron
Yes he could. But then he might well lose the fricking war slapping the wrong people...
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:28:19 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Old Teufel Hunden
It’s the latest tactic, confuse the Taliban into submission.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:29:03 AM PDT
by
paristwelve
(Feeling sorry for things is just an excuse for not celebrating your own happiness.)
To: JasonC
I understand what they intended to do, but there is a disconnect between intent and execution. They may have been better served if they used a more macro view on this.
On the other hand, if this is the macro view, we have troubles
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:33:22 AM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: skimbell
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:33:26 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
To: thackney
Looks kind of like the chart on how the cost-saving obamacare will operate.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:35:22 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: skimbell
I think Grant, Sherman, or Patton could solve the problem.
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posted on
04/28/2010 10:38:26 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The enormous crimes in history were all perpetrated by governments.)
To: skimbell
someone need to frame that at the Guggenheim and call it “Portrait of the Ivy League Mind”
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