National Security Advisor Refers to Obama Aides as The Politburo (Afghanistan, Whitehouse)

[LauraC]

...although I'm sure he said it lovingly.

"Some of the critical players in President Obama’s national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, “Obama’s Wars,” by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed in by the military. Mr. Obama’s top White House adviser on Afghanistan and his special envoy for the region are described as believing the strategy will not work."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/wo...licy.html?_r=1

Seems he's more worried about losing "the whole Democrat Party" than the war.

POLITBURO deinition: the principal policy-making and executive committee of a Communist party.

[Soccersupporter]

Originally Posted by LauraC

...although I'm sure he said it lovingly.

"Some of the critical players in President Obama’s national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, “Obama’s Wars,” by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed in by the military. Mr. Obama’s top White House adviser on Afghanistan and his special envoy for the region are described as believing the strategy will not work."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/wo...licy.html?_r=1

Seems he's more worried about losing "the whole Democrat Party" than the war.

POLITBURO deinition: the principal policy-making and executive committee of a Communist party.

Not a pretty picture of the inner workings of the Whitehouse. I guess that is what you get when you have on-the-job training.