Monday, May 16, 2011
A great episode of 60 Minutes
Last night the show featured Robert Gates talking about the Defense Department, Afghanistan's former Chief of Intelligence making the case that Pakistan is hostile to U.S. interests (although I think he is really saying they are even more hostile to Afghanistan's interest) and it highlighted the crazy "Soveriegn Citizen" movement of crazy rightwing potential terrorists. Here's the Robert Gates video, watch it and compare and contrast him with Donald Rumsfeld. Bringing in Robert Gates to relace Rumsfeld was George W. Bush's greatest singular decision of his presidency, followed by listening to Condeleeza Rice instead of Cheney in his second term:
Labels:
Civil society,
National politics
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