“Fred Kagan, an official adviser to McChrystal who, incredibly enough, freelances as a blogger at National Review…”

There are numerous other political advisors to Gen. McCrystal, as well. Trying to track policy in today’s politicized environment is increasingly difficult:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/31/winning_hearts_and_minds_all_of_mcchrystals_advisors

Also See Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

And Here:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjRhYzk0N2UxM2U2MzZiMGJmODljMjM1MWY1NTBkMzY=

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And who cares what they think.

What do our enemies think? And more importantly, what do our betrayed allies think?

http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/the-cheese-stands-alone/

After a lot of problems, they finally managed to “hit” a few test warheads that were launched at a known time, on a known trajectory and didn’t have even the most “primitive” decoys. The Military and contractors then declared “success” and the system, that doesn’t work, was deployed.

According to his biography he is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. Coincidentally perhaps the presumed architect of Obamas policy is a tenured professor at that institution–Zbigniew Brzezinski.

If I understand his position he is concerned with not provoking Putin, has little confidence in the efficacy of the shield and sees no threat extant emanating from Iran.

I think his arguments are pretextual. What he is arguing in favor of is a reduction of US military protection with respect to Europe. Also, he is yielding to Russian hegemony in the region.

There are reasons to reduce our commitment at this time. The most obvious reason is we cannot afford it. Cost sharing vs abandonment should have been considered by this administration.

However, the abandonment of an ally is never a good thing. Our word was given and it is not being kept. The inevitable effect is to reinforce a growing suspicion throughout the world that the United States cannot be trusted and allies are expendable.

Also, I note with interest that shortly after Obama gave Putin what he wanted, Putin agreed to see Obama contributors General Electric, Goldman Sacks and a private equity firm. Another Rezko deal?

Finally, one need not be a neocon to understand the significance of a missile defense system in a world where countries like Brazil and Venezuela are contemplating nuclear weapons.

“Raytheon, we never forget who we are working for”.

Poor bastard that lost a 5 billion Boeing account.

Isn’t the “umbrella concept”, is in part, based on this concept of missle defense, that the SOS has spoken about?

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/bdein_ties_to_tehran/2008/08/26/125165.html

http://www.bollyn.com/index.php#article_11433

This is all very confusing…except for one part….

” In stopping the missile shield technology for East Europe that was nowhere near ready and would have directed $5 billion to the Boeing Corporation, the Obama administration has endorsed dozens of interceptors for U.S. ships in the North and Mediterranean Seas in 2011 as well as interceptors for West and East Europe in 2015 that will direct $5 billion to the Raytheon and Lockheed corporations.”

So Obama isn’t saving any money; he isn’t disarming; he probably made Boeing mad and he did a deal…with someone. Who? Where’s the transparency people?

The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.
And the world tastes good cause the candyman thinks it should

But, I think Obama is baiting Israel to strike first and will then intercede during the strike on the behalf or Iran in the name of the UN and the order of law. I think this is what Biden was saying about being tested and about us needing to trust him because it wouldn’t be apparent that this would be the right thing to do. Maybe we might ought to gird our loins?

this does not sound good for this country

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE