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Originally Posted by ganbaru
NATO halts work with Afghan allies to stem insider attacks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88H0BL20120918
There's a moment when one should acknoledge a failure, than his objective was unrealistic, than each new lost is a testimony of the failure to learn the leason of the previous ones.
This moment happened years ago. And we are still going the same way as if nothing happened. |
Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing:
"President Barack Obama has closely followed the policy of his predecessor,
President George W. Bush, when it comes to tactics used in the “war on terror” —
from rendition, targeted killings, state secrets, Guantanamo Bay to domestic
spying, according to Michael Hayden, Bush’s former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
“But let me repeat my hypothesis: Despite the frequent drama at the political
level, America and Americans have found a comfortable center line in what it is
they want their government to do and what it is they accept their government
doing. It is that practical consensus that has fostered such powerful continuity
between two vastly different presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama,
when it comes, when it comes to this conflict,” Hayden said Friday while speaking
at the University of Michigan."
"“And so, we’ve seen all of these continuities between two very different human
beings, President Bush and President Obama. We are at war, targeted killings have
continued, in fact, if you look at the statistics, targeted killings have increased under
Obama.”
He said that was the case because, in one differing path between the two
presidents, Obama in 2009 closed CIA “black sites” and ratcheted down on torturing
detainees. But instead of capturing so-called “enemy combatants,” President
Obama kills them instead, Hayden said."
See:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...war-on-terror/