Biddle against the middle
The McChrystal camp gets a boost from Stephen Biddle in the New Republic., which I almost never read (or see) these days, but which Exum flagged. Biddle, who advised McChrystal last summer, worries that President Obama will try to settle for a compromise proposal. “But there is no magic middle between the McChrystal recommendation and ...
The McChrystal camp gets a boost from Stephen Biddle in the New Republic., which I almost never read (or see) these days, but which Exum flagged. Biddle, who advised McChrystal last summer, worries that President Obama will try to settle for a compromise proposal. “But there is no magic middle between the McChrystal recommendation and total withdrawal,” he warns. “In counterinsurgency, less is not more.”
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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