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‘Kayani has real power in Pakistan’

‘Kayani has real power in Pakistan’

Courtesy: Dawn.com Sixty-eight year old Bob Woodward, an associate editor at the Washington Post, is considered one of America’s most informed investigative journalists. In 1972, his disclosure and consistent reporting with Carl Bernstein of the Watergate Scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Woodward, a Pulitzer Prize winning author of 12 bestselling non-fictions, […]

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Bob Woodward Says Obama Has to Prove Himself War Time President on Charlie Rose.

Bob Woodward has been flying about D.C talking up his book, “Obama’s Wars”. And for good reason.  He’s leveling very serious arguments against President Obama’s handling of the War in Afghanistan.  He has already talked up a storm with Larry King.  Now he’s delivered quite a few blows to the White House during a conversation […]

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WaPo Concurs on Waverer-in-Chief

The Washington Post editorial page shares my concern of President Obama’s seeming lack of commitment in his Afghanistan strategy, as portrayed in Bob Woodward’s ‘Obama’s Wars’ series: What’s most disturbing in Mr. Woodward’s book is the evidence it offers that Mr. Obama’s own commitment to his plan is weak. The president is described as preoccupied […]

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Bob Woodward's 'Obama's War' Part One: Waverer-in-Chief?

Bob Woodward's 'Obama's War' Part One: Waverer-in-Chief?

Well, I just finished the 1st of Bob Woodward’s three-part series ‘Obama’s War’ in the Washington Post and came away keying a different aspect than Woodward and likely the Obama administration wanted to get across. Woodward’s main theme in this first section is that the high brass of the US military (Mullen, McChrystal, Petraeus) failed […]

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