The Operators, by Michael Hastings
Check out the full review at the Amazon link above.
This is a great book, with a few flaws...but still excellent and important.
For those who call it an "attack," which it isn't, one should remember that his "target" was a four-star general and his entire staff - I think they could handle a Rolling Stone reporter, and if they couldn't, then why would we expect them to handle the Taliban?




Excellent book. Very disturbing, though. It confirms the worst of what most Americans believe about the war. The question stands: who is accountable - Bush, Obama, Rumsfeld, Gates, Mullen, Petraeus?? My vote is - all of them. Obama will probably be reelected, although he has kept his campaign promise to pull out of Afghanistan, and Petraeus is our CIA Director. The others are retired.
Posted by: Jay B. Born | 02/12/2012 at 07:53 AM
Bush and Rumsfeld thought the war was won in 2002, and decided to have a second war. Everything that followed came from those poor decisions.
It amazes me that people actually see the Republican Party as a valid choice...considering they put us in this mess.
Posted by: NS Webster | 02/13/2012 at 12:28 AM