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Bob Woodward is an author of the famous American political history. However, seems to need no introduction. Which is just as good for him, because without a name on the cover there is surely no way that Obama would Wars has been published. Dropouts and meretricious, War Obama tried to tell the story that has no beginning or end, delivered without insight and written with no narration.
Churchill should have said that "jaw-jaw" is always better than "war-war", but he never read Woodward on the subject. Jaw-jawing begins, sort of, with the election of Barack Obama in November 2008 - although the war in Afghanistan has been going on for seven years - and over, sort of, with the announcement of Obama than 30,000 U.S. troops in December 2009, with a resolution of the conflict is far from clear.
Among the non-initial and non-ending, readers are lucky Woodward dragged through a succession of meetings about meetings, memos and PowerPoint presentations concepts, map the internal strife in various U.S. government arm. In short: The U.S. military wants a new president to increase the size of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But no one can agree on how large an increase, the U.S. military set a goal or set a schedule. Obama finally fed up and determine the three points.
If you make a brief summary of Obama's Wars sound coherent or even interesting, I'm sorry. Woodward's style is to leave readers to their own devices, wanders through the corridors of power and eavesdrop on some muttered conversation, often without context and certainly without analysis. No detail is too trivial to tell. A conversation ever occurred at CIA headquarters, but on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters. U.S. officials are not flying around Afghanistan, they are traveling on a "fixed-wing aircraft". National security adviser Jim Jones did not just make a note, he wrote became a "black style Moleskine notebook".
All Verite is to enhance the credibility Woodward elsewhere. Since some meetings are frequently told Woodward the secret and sometimes occur in the White House situation room, he gives the dialogue is the memory of one or more participants. How reliable they are we may not know, so Woodward is buttressing his mole's account with particularity Moleskine style.
Sometimes this maniac detailed irregularities in absurdity and the reader can not see Woodward for the trees. So we find Bruce Riedel, a peripheral figure, will get a phone call from the president: "lying on his lap is his King Charles spaniel, Nelson, named after the celebrated British Admiral."
In fact, Admiral Nelson is a non-American commander in the war is only mentioned Obama, but an Italian officer in Afghanistan (the prize here is to be transcribed with the syntax comedy). This is strange because Afghanistan is completely conflict-led NATO and the United Kingdom has 9,500 troops there today.
Anything outside the Beltway, the ring-road around Washington DC, a small amount. How little is disclosed by Jim Jones, explains the importance of war to Woodward when they fly "in a C-17 cargo plane that can carry huge £ 160,000 'to Afghanistan:" If we do not succeed here, organizations such as NATO, the EU association , and the United Nations may be relegated to the dustbin of history. "This statement is ridiculous, made by one of the most senior adviser to Obama, the empty accepted by Woodward, the response:" This sounds like a good case ".
The overall result is what American journalists call "junk notebook", with marginalia, filtered like Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden as vice president, Hamid Karzai casually diagnosed as manic depressive and the president of Pakistan for fear of U.S. plot to destroy his country, all given the same respect .
Woodward mind just as confused. A quick visit to Afghanistan to find he could not sleep in a tent in Helmand province:.? "My mind raced What's it like to spend a full year here How to show respect for those who do what the real danger?? Suppose that the general who caught me using the toilet? Does anyone understand this war?"
No one can accuse Woodward became lazy, even if his technique formula. A formidable amount of work has gone into the mine of memories and deputy under-secretary. But the Woodward book on the Bush years work better because the dependence on a few sources in the government led to a silent narrative - narrative resources, but the narrative remains. To avoid the fate that the Obama administration took a deliberate decision that everyone should speak, and so lost Woodward be directed at uncovering the cost of in-fighting. Obama, though, came out too, as wise and then determine once his mind was made.
The real shame is that this effort is not directed at the subject more deeply. Woodward provide treatment to battle over healthcare reform or financial crisis will be far greater than the utility. Instead, all we learned was that Richard Holbrooke really do not like to be called Dick. So .. []
Churchill should have said that "jaw-jaw" is always better than "war-war", but he never read Woodward on the subject. Jaw-jawing begins, sort of, with the election of Barack Obama in November 2008 - although the war in Afghanistan has been going on for seven years - and over, sort of, with the announcement of Obama than 30,000 U.S. troops in December 2009, with a resolution of the conflict is far from clear.
Among the non-initial and non-ending, readers are lucky Woodward dragged through a succession of meetings about meetings, memos and PowerPoint presentations concepts, map the internal strife in various U.S. government arm. In short: The U.S. military wants a new president to increase the size of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But no one can agree on how large an increase, the U.S. military set a goal or set a schedule. Obama finally fed up and determine the three points.
If you make a brief summary of Obama's Wars sound coherent or even interesting, I'm sorry. Woodward's style is to leave readers to their own devices, wanders through the corridors of power and eavesdrop on some muttered conversation, often without context and certainly without analysis. No detail is too trivial to tell. A conversation ever occurred at CIA headquarters, but on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters. U.S. officials are not flying around Afghanistan, they are traveling on a "fixed-wing aircraft". National security adviser Jim Jones did not just make a note, he wrote became a "black style Moleskine notebook".
All Verite is to enhance the credibility Woodward elsewhere. Since some meetings are frequently told Woodward the secret and sometimes occur in the White House situation room, he gives the dialogue is the memory of one or more participants. How reliable they are we may not know, so Woodward is buttressing his mole's account with particularity Moleskine style.
Sometimes this maniac detailed irregularities in absurdity and the reader can not see Woodward for the trees. So we find Bruce Riedel, a peripheral figure, will get a phone call from the president: "lying on his lap is his King Charles spaniel, Nelson, named after the celebrated British Admiral."
In fact, Admiral Nelson is a non-American commander in the war is only mentioned Obama, but an Italian officer in Afghanistan (the prize here is to be transcribed with the syntax comedy). This is strange because Afghanistan is completely conflict-led NATO and the United Kingdom has 9,500 troops there today.
Anything outside the Beltway, the ring-road around Washington DC, a small amount. How little is disclosed by Jim Jones, explains the importance of war to Woodward when they fly "in a C-17 cargo plane that can carry huge £ 160,000 'to Afghanistan:" If we do not succeed here, organizations such as NATO, the EU association , and the United Nations may be relegated to the dustbin of history. "This statement is ridiculous, made by one of the most senior adviser to Obama, the empty accepted by Woodward, the response:" This sounds like a good case ".
The overall result is what American journalists call "junk notebook", with marginalia, filtered like Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden as vice president, Hamid Karzai casually diagnosed as manic depressive and the president of Pakistan for fear of U.S. plot to destroy his country, all given the same respect .
Woodward mind just as confused. A quick visit to Afghanistan to find he could not sleep in a tent in Helmand province:.? "My mind raced What's it like to spend a full year here How to show respect for those who do what the real danger?? Suppose that the general who caught me using the toilet? Does anyone understand this war?"
No one can accuse Woodward became lazy, even if his technique formula. A formidable amount of work has gone into the mine of memories and deputy under-secretary. But the Woodward book on the Bush years work better because the dependence on a few sources in the government led to a silent narrative - narrative resources, but the narrative remains. To avoid the fate that the Obama administration took a deliberate decision that everyone should speak, and so lost Woodward be directed at uncovering the cost of in-fighting. Obama, though, came out too, as wise and then determine once his mind was made.
The real shame is that this effort is not directed at the subject more deeply. Woodward provide treatment to battle over healthcare reform or financial crisis will be far greater than the utility. Instead, all we learned was that Richard Holbrooke really do not like to be called Dick. So .. []
