If you pay attention to news you already know that there has been a change of command in Afghanistan. General David McKiernan got replaced by Lt. Gen. Stan McChrystal. The former was a white world specialist in counter-insurgency as outlined in the field manuals. The latter is a special operations guy. That's a whole different animal.
He's been described as an "ascetic" which might cause the unwary to flash on Ghandi or similar. He's clearly nothing of the kind.
If you've got twenty minutes for some serious info on what the switcheroo in the war means, go here:
Operating in a Darker World
If Nancy Pelosi has her panties in a wad about enhanced interrogation techniques, she is really going to be apopletic when she gets the briefing on the next couple of months.
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If you're going to use assassination as a political tool, why not use it properly? Kill the guy who's making all the nastiness happen. Why bother with middlemen (Heydrich as opposed to his boss, Hitler)?
Answer: The Power Elite would never kill one of their own. "Simply not done, old boy. We initiate the game and the little people pay."
Occasionally some upstart will think he's one of the Big Boys (Noriega, Saddam Hussein) and the PE will crush him like a bug.
For normal ops, however, it is just one grand game with the Big Boys pushing around the pawns.
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