• Posts Tagged ‘David Petraeus’

    “America’s relationship with Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of America’s soldiers.”

    by  • March 16, 2010 • politics & money

    photo credit: The U.S. Army US/Israel relationship is getting a little less special. Certainly, it was thought, Israel would get the message. Israel didn’t. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration reacted. But no one was more [...]

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    Senator Webb on General McChrystal and the Chain of Command

    by  • October 7, 2009 • politics & money

    The Obama Administration, Secretary of Defense Gates, Adm. Jones and Gen. Petraeus cannot be pleased with the General who is in charge of the “war of necessity” kneecapping the executive branches policy deliberations from lecterns in London. Senator Jim Webb puts the situation into the simple context of following the chain of command. Eugene Robinson [...]

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