THE PLANK MAY 11, 2009
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In a surprise move, the top U.S. general in Afganistan, David McKiernan, is out and Iraq special ops man Stanley McChrystal takes over the good war. Newsweek did a quick snapshot back in 2006:
He isn't even listed in the directory at Fort Bragg, N.C., his home
base. That's not because McChrystal has done anything wrong--quite the
contrary, he's one of the Army's rising stars--but because he runs the
most secretive force in the U.S. military. That is the Joint Special
Operations Command, the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops"
guys who captured Saddam Hussein and targeted Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
--Michael Crowley
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For those unaware, Stanley McChrystal is the Secret Service code name for Dick Cheney. And Black-ops is the CIA's code name for American foreign policy, business as ususal.
As with God, black-ops works in mysterious ways, its blunders to behold.
george
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May 11, 2009 at 5:17pm