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11 May 2009 07:15 pm
The Firing Of McKiernan
I don't know quite what to make of it. Fred Kaplan does:
For the past year, McChrystal has been director of the Pentagon's
Joint Staff. More pertinently, for five years before that, he was
commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, a highly secretive
operation that hunted down and killed key jihadist fighters, including,
most sensationally, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in
Iraq.
Last fall, Bob Woodward reported in the Washington Post
that JSOC played a crucial, unsung role in the tactical success of the
Iraqi "surge." Using techniques of what McChrystal called
"collaborative warfare," JSOC combined intelligence intercepts with
quick, precision strikes to "eliminate" large numbers of key insurgent
leaders.
Obama is beginning to own the war in Afghanistan. I think he'll regret it but hope he doesn't.
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