Pure Politics Of Obama's Afghanistan Escalation

Real News Network CEO Paul Jay talks with Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, about the politics behind Barack Obama's Afghanistan "surge", who explains the devastation of the US Military by the occupation, and how a combination of Obama's own presidential campaign rhetoric and manipulations by his generals had "locked him in" to escalating the occupation of Afghanistan.

Wilkerson then gives us his take from the perspective of being a teacher on the subject of presidential national security decision making about what the geopolitical consequences of this escalation will likely be.

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