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Remember When Conservatives Distrusted the Generals?

By | 11.30.09 | 10:55 am

Dave’s insightful post on the Republicans’ Afghanistan strategy — try to use Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a cudgel against President Obama — is a good guide to next week’s testimony from the commander of the Afghanistan war. But when Bill Kristol frames the war as something conducted by McChrystal More…

Did Tony Zinni Think He Was Going to Be the Next Iraq Ambassador?

By | 02.04.09 | 10:03 am

Barbara Slavin at The Washington Times has an interesting coda to the not-yet-official-but-very-likely appointment of Chris Hill to be ambassador to Iraq. Apparently, retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, a former Central Command chief and Iraq war opponent who quietly advised President Obama during the campaign, thought he was More…