Scott Horton Interviews Kelley B. Vlahos
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Kelley B. Vlahos, featured Antiwar.com columnist and contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, discusses her article “Surge Finally Getting a Second Look?” about the dawning realization in military circles that David Petraeus is a stuffed shirt and the Iraq surge didn’t really work; how the “surge” fiction was packaged and sold as a comprehensive COIN strategy (not surprisingly a failure as well); why the media will eventually realize that, since Iraq and Afghanistan are total disasters, it makes no sense to praise Petraeus for his supposed “successes;” and why Americans weren’t paying close enough attention to discriminate between correlation (the “surge” and a decline in Iraq violence) and causation (the successful Shiite purge of Sunnis from contested areas).
MP3 here. (19:53)
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos has spent over a decade as a political reporter in Washington DC. Currently, she is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine and its daily weblog, @TAC. She is also a Washington correspondent for the DC-based homeland security magazine, Homeland Security Today, a long-time political writer for FOXNews.com, a regular columnist for Antiwar.com and a contributor to CriminalJustice.Change.org
Roger Lafontaine
September 18th, 2011 at 11:38 am
Listening to this it makes me wonder what's the pt. of all the secrecy since it appears that neither the media or the public are really paying attention anyway – I should have said – really care anyway.
Iraq snapshot (C.I.) | thecommonillsbackup
September 20th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
[...] is now US policy. And this has happened while we on the left have refused to address the issue. Scott Horton (Antiwar Radio) spoke with Antiwar.com’s Kelly B. Vlahos about the surge, the counter-insurgency movement and myths and [...]
2 and 1/2 men (Rebecca) | thecommonillsbackup
September 21st, 2011 at 3:15 am
[...] It is now US policy. And this has happened while we on the left have refused to address the issue. Scott Horton (Antiwar Radio) spoke with Antiwar.com’s Kelly B. Vlahos about the surge, the counter-insurgency movement and myths [...]
Sat night bathist
September 26th, 2011 at 6:46 am
It may be time to eliminate the Joint Chiefs of Staff and create a new cabinet post to control the Defense Department: "Surge-On General"..?
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October 2nd, 2011 at 11:19 am
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October 4th, 2011 at 2:55 am
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October 4th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
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October 5th, 2011 at 4:22 am
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October 5th, 2011 at 4:24 am
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October 5th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
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October 6th, 2011 at 3:19 am
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October 6th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
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October 6th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
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