Feuds in Obama's Wars are not just soap opera

[CHIMO]

The way that the media work these days is a process that tends to act as an amnesiac. We have rapid surges of interest that occlude our memories of what we thought we knew before. Events exist increasingly in isolation, uninterpreted.

The sudden interest in Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars – on the divisions within Barack Obama's White House and his wider administration over the development of the new policy for Afghanistan – has been a case in point.

It has been treated largely as a piece of dramatic revelation in its own right. The reality is that it narrates a different side of what has been an increasingly familiar story that has been emerging in fits and starts for over a year.

It is the partner piece for the revelations that emerged earlier this summer in Rolling Stone magazine, which led to the resignation of the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for disparaging remarks his team made about senior administration officials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/23/barack-obama-wars-soap-opera

[howaboutme]

1. Our wars are about the interests of other countries and war profiteers

Until Americans understand fully that the true enemies of the American people are the lobbies that work for other nations, and those in Congress that support war profiteers, your taxes and the lives of young Americans will be frittered away like a disposable commodity.

[Jefferson23]

2. +100 n/t