What’s happened is here is that McChrystal represents the rise of the dark side, and Obama has taken a man that was used to operating with no accountability on the dark side of the US national security apparatus and made him the commander of the entire war in Afghanistan with carte blanche to do what he wants in that region. The combination of him and David Petraeus, who’s Cheney’s general, means that you have the dark side now essentially running the US military.
June 17, 2010
Jeremy Scahill: "the dark side" runs the US military.
Appearing on Democracy Now today, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill said:
