Can a mundane defense authorization law create an Obama dictatorship? Many people on the political right and left have been alarmed by language in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that they argue authorizes the president to use military force to capture, detain, torture and kill Americans at home …
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EDITORIAL: Obama and dictatorship
The AP gets a sneak peak at forthcoming biography of David Petraeus and finds some news : WASHINGTON (AP) – Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus almost resigned as Afghanistan war commander over President Barack Obama’s decision to quickly draw down surge forces, according to a new insider’s look at Petraeus’ 37-year Army career. Petraeus decided that resigning would be a “selfish, grandstanding move with huge political ramifications” and that now was “time to salute and carry on,” according to a forthcoming biography. Author and Petraeus confidante Paula Broadwell had extensive access to the general in Afghanistan and Washington for “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,” due from Penguin Press in January. The salute-and-carry-on instinct is somewhat understandable, and we’ll have to see the quotes in context to fully assess Petraeus’s reasoning, but it’s hard not to wish that he’d gone ahead and resigned. He’s right that the political ramifications would have been huge, but they might also have been salutary.
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Petraeus Almost Resigned Over Afghan Drawdown
Even though Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood already took credit. BEIRUT: In diametrically conflicting attitudes reflecting the political schism between Lebanon’s rival factions, Hezbollah and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri differed sharply Friday over who was responsible for the twin suicide car bombings that targeted security service buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least 44
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Hezbollah Says U.S. Behind Syrian Suicide Bombings…
The case for why the current embedded base of the political class MUST GO! Their inability to act in a decisive manner to make the cabinet level cuts necessary to garner the $1.2Tn needed is their undoing. This nation needs to lop off cabinet level positions wholesale. – “After months of hard work and intense
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Super Committee
Standard & Poor’s historic downgrade of the U.S. credit rating is an attempt to bring adult oversight to the political squabbling over out-of-control government spending. But rather than “eating his peas,” President Obama is throwing a tantrum.
