"Frederick and Kimberly Kagan.... the influential husband-and-wife team.... highly influential, briefing members of the Obama administration, Congress, and journalists whose opinions matter....
Yeah, YOUR OPINION DOES NOT MATTER, Amurkn -- but then, you know that by now.
“They played an important role [as].... intellectual architects of the controversial “surge’’ strategy in Iraq.’’ ....
So PREPARE for ANOTHER SURGE!!!
Probably a DRAFT, too, after the NEXT FALSE FLAG EVENT!
Together they are now playing an outsized role in the public debate in Washington over the future of the war in Afghanistan....
Some Democratic lawmakers remain wary of being associated publicly with a couple that the American Conservative magazine recently called “superhawks.’’ An associate of Kimberly Kagan requested that the Democratic members of Congress the Kagans have recently briefed - including Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin of Michigan, Senator Ted Kaufman of Delaware, and Congresswoman Jane Harman of California - not be identified because they may not want their constituencies to know the Kagans are advising them."
But, but, but... the ICKY DECEPTIONS and LYING are supposed to be the Repuglicans, not DemocraPs!!!
What this REALLY MEANS is there is NO DIFFERENCE in those LETTERS after the NAMES!
It is all ONE PARTY NOW, the WAR PARTY!!!!!!!!
And here is its first family:
"Husband and wife take stage in debate on Afghanistan; Frequent targets of the left speak out" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | October 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - As intellectual architects of the controversial “surge’’ strategy in Iraq in 2007, military scholars Frederick and Kimberly Kagan have been frequent targets of the left, derided as “warmongers’’ and “cheerleaders’’ of the neoconservative ideology that advocates a muscular foreign policy to spread American values.
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That's a real surprise, huh?
And WHEN are you "antiwar liberals" going to LEARN, huh?
Meet Your Antiwar New England Liberals
Oh.
Now, with a new administration in power, the influential husband-and-wife team has emerged again, this time at the center of the debate over whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. The pair, both former instructors at West Point, were on the advisory panel that helped General Stanley A. McChrystal, the US commander, form his classified assessment to President Obama calling for more troops. And they have publicly been talking up their own view that 40,000 to 45,000 additional troops are needed to bolster the counterinsurgency mission.
Yeah, except they want 500,000 troops, obfuscating MSM.
Their portfolio is unofficial, but they are highly influential, briefing members of the Obama administration, Congress, and journalists whose opinions matter about the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. “They are a force to be reckoned with,’’ said retired Army General Jack Keane, who also helped develop the strategy credited with stabilizing Iraq. “They have tremendous powers of persuasion.’’
The Kagans recently returned from nearly a month in Afghanistan at the invitation of General David H. Petraeus, the top US commander in the Middle East, who previously sought their advice when he was the top general in Baghdad. “They played an important role in helping to develop the rationale and the arguments for the additional forces needed in Iraq,’’ Petraeus said in an interview. He lauded their “degree of rigor’’ and willingness to spend “quite a bit of time in the field, in tough places,’’ including one incident in Iraq when a vehicle in their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb.
Oh, they are real heroes. Did that even happen to them?
Terrorists just happen to miss them of all people, huh?
However, some foreign policy specialists are raising new concerns about their influence, especially since the Kagans appeared to never seriously consider other scenarios besides a full-scale counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan requiring tens of thousands of additional US troops.
Because THAT was their WAR-MONGERING JOB!
Writing for Foreign Policy magazine late last month about the small group of outside experts advising McChrystal, including the Kagans, Stephen M. Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said they seem intent on avoiding “the real question that President Obama (and the nation) faces: should the United States increase its presence in the hopes of reversing the situation, or should it cut its losses and get out?’’
And the guy who co-wrote the despised book about the Israeli lobby.
Strange how the Zionist War Sheet bio-cheer missed that.
The pair declined to be interviewed for this story, but in an e-mail, Frederick Kagan, who is a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, defended their approach.
And a TRUSTED DEMOCRAT ADVISER!!!!!!
“We do not pursue any ideology when it comes to the military assessments and recommendations we provide,’’ he said. “We make our best efforts to evaluate America’s interests objectively, to understand enemy forces, friendly forces, and third parties, and to identify the courses of action we think are best to pursue our country’s interests.’’
The couple, who fiercely guard their personal privacy, first teamed up as undergraduates at Yale in the early 1990s, according to Frederick’s father, Donald Kagan, a Yale historian and well-known neoconservative.
Yeah, THEY are ALLOWED PRIVACY --as opposed to the rest of us spied-upon rabble! Hey, the world is an oyster when you are an elite Joo -- for now, but not for much longer.
As for the rest of this, WHO GIVES a SHIT?!!!
Growing up in New Haven, Frederick demonstrated an early proclivity for military strategy, arraying opposing armies fashioned from small pieces of paper and relying on the details of historic battles to play his war games, his father said.
Oh, so THIS JOO was SICK RIGHT from the START!!!!!!
At Yale, where he earned a doctorate in Russian and Soviet military history, Frederick found an intellectual match in Kimberly.
Was he IN SKULL and BONES like JOHN KERRY and GEORGE BUSH?
By now EVERYONE KNOWS Harvard and Yale are SICKIE INSTITUTIONS of GLOBAL ELITISTS!!!!
The daughter of an accountant and school teacher from New York City, she earned a doctorate in ancient history. Among her recent literary works is a book analyzing the writings of Roman military historians Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. The Washington think tank she started, the Institute for the Study of War, offers seminars on battles ranging from ancient Greece to World War II. (She is also researcher at Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.)
No maiden name? No doubt she a Jew, too.
“They fell for each other very early,’’ Donald Kagan said.
Oh, a love story of two mass-murderers; how heartwarming!
Together they are now playing an outsized role in the public debate in Washington over the future of the war in Afghanistan....
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Some Democratic lawmakers remain wary of being associated publicly with a couple that the American Conservative magazine recently called “superhawks.’’ An associate of Kimberly Kagan requested that the Democratic members of Congress the Kagans have recently briefed - including Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin of Michigan, Senator Ted Kaufman of Delaware, and Congresswoman Jane Harman of California - not be identified because they may not want their constituencies to know the Kagans are advising them.But many scholars and military officers interviewed by the Globe - including liberal experts such as Lawrence Korb at the Center for American Progress - described the Kagans as clear-eyed analysts who are “intellectually honest’’ and more interested in military victory than any broader political vision.
And there is your DOVISH, ANTIWAR movement as it exists in the AmeriKan newspapers.
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Time to MoveOn, huh?
Retired Army Colonel Peter Mansoor, who worked with the Kagans in Baghdad and now teaches military history at Ohio State University, said that whatever their philosophy their recommendations should be taken seriously. “You can disagree with their politics but that doesn’t necessarily negate what they have to say,’’ Mansoor said.
Unless you OPPOSE the AGENDA and TELL the TRUTH!!
Then you are to be IGNORED, DENIGRATED, and DISPARAGED by the establishment and its mouthpiece MSM like the Glob here.
So when is the CINDY SHEEHAN PROFILE, 'eh, Globe?
