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dixiegrrrrl

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6. Non-fiction...The Operators, by the late Michael Hastings.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jan 10, 2016, 05:42 PM

Jan 2016

One of the subjects of the book was first a magazine article he wrote for Rolling Stone, about General McChrystal, who was later fired from his role as Afghanistan head of operations, replaced by Petraeus, ( and we all saw where THAT went, right?).

The Operators is about how the Afghanistan war was being handled for the past 14 years, up to 2011.
Hastings then was killed in a very suspicious car crash.

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