From: JoeSpareBedroom on
"Ron Peterson" <ron(a)shell.core.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 10, 3:14 pm, Aratzio <a6ahly...(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:

> -- However, the people whose advice he's following -- namely, Defense
> Secretary Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon
> -- very much do have that expertise.

I doubt it.
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What do you doubt? That ANY of the JCS have "that expertise"?

Or is there something else you doubt in the paragraph above, beginning with
the words "However, the people"?


From: Jeff Strickland on

"Ron Peterson" <ron(a)shell.core.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 10, 3:14 pm, Aratzio <a6ahly...(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:

> -- See, the president can't be an expert in all things. So he
> surrounds himself with the best minds he can, experts who advise him
> on various aspects of national policy.

His appointees are usually Republicans or close to it.


<JS>
What?!

Where is JoeShitForBrains, what have you done with him?


</JS>