Now as A-Great-War-President, Obama's takes the usual approach that these types of illustrious leaders reflexively glom on to for a war --or other detrimental policy-- gone bad:
- increase the war effort (more troops, more money, more hype), and
- shut those damn truth-tellers up!
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As Glenn Greenwald writes:
It's hardly a shock that the war in Afghanistan is going far worse than political officials have been publicly claiming. Aside from the fact that lying about war is what war leaders do almost intrinsically -- that's part of what makes war so degrading to democratic values -- there have been numerous official documents that have recently emerged or leaked out that explicitly state that the war is going worse than ever and is all but unwinnable. ... [emphasis added]
Greenwald also points to this post by Jay Rosen. It's one of Rosen's better posts and a must read:
The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization
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