A conversation with Bruce Riedel

with Bruce Riedel
in Current Affairs
on Friday, March 27, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution, a former CIA Analyst, a counter-terrorism expert, and an author

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Taliban
Obama
Middle East
al Qaeda
Iraq
Pakistan
Afghanistan

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    1. tartufe  04/01/2009 11:44 PM Report

      Didn't see this but can bet he was a proxy for the M-I oligarchy, like the like the other shills espousing the party orthodoxy.

      Drone missiling civilians into al-Qaeda recruits makes Raytheon et al slobber all over their secret numbered off-shore tax-sheltered bank account books.

    2. REMant  03/30/2009 11:32 PM Report

      I think Charlie asked all the questions here, and I don't disagree with the point that situation there is critical, but I don't like this guy's tone one iota. There is no way we are going to be able to Americanize, domesticate or globalize them and I wouldn't even be thinking about it. We'd likely be better off dropping some nuclear weapons on them. Or we could simply go in and destroy their missiles and warheads, if we are worried about them. Neither am I persuaded by the argument that we need to fight them there, for fear we will have to fight them here instead, or whether, if we do, we should be doing it mostly by ourselves. It is all too much like LBJ and George Bush. Too, when you follow a military strategy, not only do you alienate others, you expend funds, in this case, the nation can't afford, further jeopardizing mollification.

    3. charlizecourriers  03/30/2009 05:01 PM Report

      The men and women fighters in Afganistan and Pakistan fight and die because they believe in deep and life sustaining political, ethical, and religious principles. Contrast that reality with Mr. Riedel's cliches embedded in bureaucratic gibberish. Patriots versus politicians. And the losers are...? LBJ had a similar problem-how to win in Vietnam AND Cambodia. He lost in both! The soldiers who believe in their mission versus those who are pawns of foreign alliances. Four thousand new troops-and a few more Senior Fellows like this and a new book entitled Fiasco, The Sequel! will becoming soon to a library near you.