lbo-talk-digest V1 #5178

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Tue Oct 30 07:57:31 PST 2001


I think the press is exaggerating Admin responses in such a way as to portray them as mood swings. It makes more of a story.

The more important development IMO is the elevation of the hawkish critique of the Admin from the likes of Kristol and Krauthammer in the Post this a.m. I would expect this to be echoed on the talk radio shows shortly.

mbs

I've been amazed over the last few days by Washington's amazement at the tenacity of the Taliban and by U.S. forces' failure to get any useful intelligence in their ground raid the other day. Any reasonably literate newspaper reader could have predicted both. Is it groupthink that led them to these idiotic expectations? Racist underestimates of the foe? What?

Doug



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