By Jamie McIntyre
If you needed any clue to Gates’ propensity to jettison subpar performers regardless of prior success you need look no further than his tenure as President of Texas A&M University, where one of his first acts was to fire the winnings football coach in Aggie history. Gates would later joke privately that during his time at the CIA he’d overthrown governments of small countries with less blowback.
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My former colleague at CNN, Dave Schechter, who always pointed me in the right direction, came upon this site, http://www.intheirboots.com . Check out Dave’s blog, and watch the video. You will not be sorry.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/29/in-their-boots/
At the end of the day, that IS what the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” debate comes down to, ending discrimination. You either believe gays should be discriminated against, or you don’t. I believe they should not be. Not in the U.S. military, or anywhere else.
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Marc Thiessen has written a provocative new book that is provocative only in the sense that it requires critics of the Bush Administration’s intelligence gathering methods to examine the generally accepted premise that many of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” were tantamount to torture.
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The nation’s top military advisors are not the Joint CHEERLEADERS of Staff. It is not their role to publicly applaud or deride the political policies of the civilian leadership. Their job is to salute smartly, and carry out their orders.
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The New York Times is timidly toying with plans to try to charge “heavy users” of the online version of its paper a nominal fee to access its website. I say the Times should go for broke, and charge for EVERYTHING. It’s the only way to leverage to power of the premier news site and break online consumers of the notion that the best news on the web is still free.
Viewers understand and expect reporters to be human. But reporters should also be aware, that if they get too caught up in their own adventures, they risk becoming reality show stars, and losing the credibility that so vital when they go back to their other job: journalism.
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