A Game That’s Not So Great
By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT
KIRKUK, Iraq
Puppets just aren’t what they used to be.
Or maybe a trillion dollars doesn’t buy the same felicitous level of obsequiousness it once did.
Visiting Afghanistan and Iraq in an attempt to shore up our wobbly wards, Bob Gates could not seem to get the respect due the man running the world’s best military, a force that has been protecting and propping up our two occupied territories for most of this decade.
At a joint press conference Tuesday at the presidential palace in Kabul, Hamid Karzai surprised the usually unflappable Gates when he knocked down President Obama’s attempt to get out of Dodge.
(More here.)
NYT
KIRKUK, Iraq
Puppets just aren’t what they used to be.
Or maybe a trillion dollars doesn’t buy the same felicitous level of obsequiousness it once did.
Visiting Afghanistan and Iraq in an attempt to shore up our wobbly wards, Bob Gates could not seem to get the respect due the man running the world’s best military, a force that has been protecting and propping up our two occupied territories for most of this decade.
At a joint press conference Tuesday at the presidential palace in Kabul, Hamid Karzai surprised the usually unflappable Gates when he knocked down President Obama’s attempt to get out of Dodge.
(More here.)
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