Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward’s new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office:
“It wasn’t until well into the Obama presidency,” Woodward writes, that vetÂeran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, “learned definitively how much the president didn’t care for him.” The two had met and chatted briefly on Jan. 22, 2009, when Obama named him to the job.
“‘Mr. President, I want to ask you one favor,’ Holbrooke had said, expressing gratitude for the highly visible assignment. ‘Would you do me the great favor of calling me Richard, for my wife’s sake?'” Woodward writes. “… She disliked the name ‘Dick,’ which the president had been using.”
Obama referred to Holbrooke as “Richard” during the announcement ceremony but, Woodward writes, “told others he found the request highly unusual and even strange. Holbrooke was horrified when he learned that his request — which he had repeated to no one — had been circulated by the president.”
This explains why Obama’s foreign policy wizards were too busy to notice that the Karzai family were some of the biggest rascals in Central Asian history.
That explains it better than most theories his supporters expect us to believe…
It never ceases to amaze me how vain and petty blood thirsty murderers can be
This shows that Obama is an inexperienced manager and, of course, that war attracts Dicks.
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