Charlie Rose

tartufe  08/09/2009 08:54 PM Report

MI oligarches.

fjgajewski  08/09/2009 08:40 PM Report

Does Obama think his Afghanistan surge is the change his base wanted? Sounds to me as if our president is a puppet. Who's pulling his strings.

tartufe  08/08/2009 04:50 PM Report

Why not? They have to spend their $3.o billion annual largesse some way. Buying Congress must get old hat (with their own money). A general or two expands their reach, and doubtless puffs their sleeeves to laugh up, and up, and up . . . .

EyesOnYou  08/08/2009 02:36 AM Report

Is Zinni consulting for AIPAC? The entire segment on Israel, he advanced their view.

tartufe  08/07/2009 02:21 PM Report

The puerile chest thumping over a drone missile kill of the alleged top al Qaeda operative is so much PR swill. Same news disclosed more US deaths by roadside bombs. Connect those dots and see if the media swilled rationalization for the continued use of drones - which is all that silliness is - computes. In the same release they mentioned his successor was being named. So we've gained nothing but assure enmity and more enemies. His second wife was killed as well - just more acceptable collateral damage.

Northrop-Grumman working on nuclear-powered drones for domestic and other uses to 'loiter' for months in the air. Techno-arrogance is the best kind (until 'they' acquire it as well).

Go long in Northrop-Grumman in the meantime.

tartufe  08/07/2009 01:23 PM Report

Astute observations, especially this, "Too, military ppl are paranoid, seeing threats behind every bush. That instinctive combativiness is why they chose the line of work. All those threats must, of course, be met by a "strategic" design. They see the same mindset in others. As a result they pose a constant danger to democracy, even tho with seasoning I think military ppl have a far better sense of distributive justice than the avg American."

With exception of 'distributive justice.' Don't know what that is. Sounds presumptive and arrogant. The military certainly qualify.

Kind of like CR deleting my posts. If I react properly they should de-select my offerings. I may have to resort to something constructive. He's becoming a bit vacuous anyway.

REMant  08/07/2009 12:54 PM Report

While I agree that NATO has not contributed a share that if it had been there from the start might have prevented a lot of what has happened in the past eight yrs, I think it is clear that those who've supported us have been the more market-oriented among them, and not the rest, who I think actually sympathize more with the Muslims tho they probably would rather not have any of them in their own countries. I suspect Zinni was considered too ideological, too military, and too close to the Clintons to be ambassador. Too, military ppl are paranoid, seeing threats behind every bush. That instinctive combativiness is why they chose the line of work. All those threats must, of course, be met by a "strategic" design. They see the same mindset in others. As a result they pose a constant danger to democracy, even tho with seasoning I think military ppl have a far better sense of distributive justice than the avg American. But frankly, I think it made more sense when we really had an "all-volunteer" force, made up of draftees. Zinni, however, should have a good sense of the strengths and weaknesses of counterinsurgency, because he is old enough to have served two tours early in Vietnam.