Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"Commanders in the American military's most elite Special Operations unit are contending that their troops should be freed from the fruitless hunt in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, military and intelligence officials say," write James Risen and Eric Schmitt in today's New York Times.
US Special Forces commanders are whining off the record to the Times about how their boys shouldn't be stuck on the Osama-hunt. I don't find this to be acceptable at all. George W. Bush is President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the US military. It's his Army (and Navy and Air Force) to fuck up if he wants to.
Is anybody else troubled by the concept of the military being a toy for the president that he can play with as he pleases? Doesn't it seem like a good idea to have place constraints on a president's power to make war? A certain document that Yglesias has previously praised seems to suggest so. If their is no constraint on what the Bushs and Clintons of the world can do then they will just go around around fucking up other countries. Wait a second... posted by micah holmquist at 9/03/2002 06:47:00 AM
