KCRW's Left, Right and Center: Blogger Marisa Bojiuc
Today's Quotables:
Bob Scheer:
White House and Iraq announcement about possible troop reductions: we’re not winning the war in any respect that was defined by our goals there…This is a face-saving gesture. He also says Afghanistan’s been a disaster for centuries and that the US went there 7 months before the Soviets did. The US has been “making a mess, messing around in Afghanistan – we should let people make their own history.”
William Pfaff wrote on TruthDig.com: I don’t know why people are thrilled with [Barack] Obama saying we need to get into Afghanistan- that’s a potential disaster.
Arianna:
"I object to this pathetic, obsolete way of looking at American politics" [re: left-right divisions in American politics] including the "archaic name of our show."