All we can hear at the moment is just a buzz…
American and Pakistan forces reportedly snatched Mullah Baradar last week in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. Mullah Baradar is the most senior Taliban figure detained in many years and the news of his capture came just as a massive coalition and Afghan military offensive is pressing the insurgents on the battlefield in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The co-operation between American and Pakistani intelligence suggests a recent improvement in ties.
…But what may soon emerge from this buzz, what we might hear loud and clear is that Obama is a better general than he is a reformer. If this happens, if Obama’s political success begins to stand on his achievements on the battlefield, it will be the first great contradiction of this new millennium. Bush was supposed to be the war president, but he completely failed as a general. Obama is supposed to be the progressive president, but he excels at the thing that glues the right, war.
Peace through war was always his promise.
Freude durch Krieg!
I’ve always thought that being Commander in Chief of the armed forces is actually not that hard. It’s Republican presidents who make it look difficult to impossible.
republics will never give him credit, they’ll take the credit for themselves. but the pakistanis were yanking our chain for 7 years until obama took office.
Ehh. Could be true. But crediting him with military brilliance seem about as proper as giving him the Nobel Peace prize. We at the point where mere competence now seems like brilliance.