I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going to stick to that plan. I haven't agreed to anything beyond that.'
The 30,000 was a 'hard cap,' he said forcefully. 'I don't want enablers to be used as wiggle room. The easy thing for me to do - politically - would actually be to say no' to the 30,000. Then he gestured out the Oval Office windows, across the Potomac, in the direction of the Pentagon. Referring to Gates and the uniformed military, he said. 'They think it's the opposite. I'd be perfectly happy -' He stopped mid-sentence. 'Nothing would make Rahm happier than if I said no to the 30,000.'
There was some subdued laughter.
'Rahm would tell me it'd be much easier to do what I want to do by saying no,' the president said. He could then focus on the domestic agenda that he wanted to be the heart of his presidency. The military did not understand. 'Politically, what these guys don't get is it'd be a lot easier for me to go out and give a speech saying, 'You know what? The American people are sick of this war, and we're going to get out of there.
Tags: war military president afghanistan bob-woodward chief-of-staff obama-s-war rahm-emmanuel robert-gates secretary-of-defense
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
Bob WoodwardTags: war government military afghanistan bob-woodward obama-s-war
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
Tatjana SoliTags: photography war pictures
Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.
Ann CoulterTags: war liberalism fighting self-interest skirmish
War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
Catherynne M. ValenteWomen deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.
Sonya Renee TaylorTags: politics men women war feminism rights rapists
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
Mark KnopflerTags: war diversity worlds longing-for-peace
My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.
Elle JasperThat's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
William GibsonTags: art war technology
It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: fanaticism war worship freedom-of-religion crusades
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