...'sacrificing truth to support existing war policies.'
"Like Westmoreland (during the Vietnam War), Petraeus appears to have invoked the privilege of the military commander to avert the potential "political bombshell" of an estimate that would almost certainly have shown a large increase in the number of armed insurgents in Afghanistan."
Our 'go it alone' approach has always been exceedingly unpopular...
Nine years now, and much closer is the end... what are we doing there... it could go on like this for decades.
Deferring to Petraeus, NIE Failed to Register Taliban Growth - IPS ipsnews.net
