Pentagon Panel: Biden Was Right, Prep for 'Crisis'

[CatWoman]

The McCain campaign pounced the other day, when Joe Biden said that his running mate would be tested by an international crisis at the start of his White House tenure. But the chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel is sounding a similar warning, telling the next administration to "prepare for a likely first-270-days crisis."

Veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, told his fellow panelists that the new president's inner circle should "set aside time in transition to identify the planning, gravitas and interagency process necessary to respond to a likely first-270-day crisis."

From Kennedy (Bay of Pigs) to Johnson (Gulf of Tonkin) to Bush (9/11)," too many presidents were ill prepared for this," Bayer warns.

"For months, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the service chiefs and the Joint Staff have been preparing for the first wartime transfer of Pentagon political authority in four decades," notes Inside Defense, which broke word of Bayer's presentation. "In addition to identifying defense policy issues for an incoming to understand, the military is also on high operational alert."

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/pentagon-panel.html

[AspenRose]

1. Joe was right (AGAIN)

Wonder if he gets tired of being RIGHT so much.





Nah. :rofl:

[CatWoman]

2. I'm really starting to adore Joe

especially after he went off on that wingnut witch in Florida :)

[Qutzupalotl]

9. I must have missed that.

Are you referring to Palin? :-) What happened?

[AspenRose]

12. Faux news wannabee trying to use GOP talking points on Biden in an interview

He smacked her down BUT GOOD

It's in the video section

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. That's a cool photo of our Joe

and of course he is right.

[moodforaday]

8. Does that mean you are happy

there will be, as Biden called it, a "generated crisis"? Shouldn't we rather hope he is wrong?

And if his prediction materializes, will you ask how he knew ahead of time of a "generated" crisis? And the Pentagon? And no-one did anything to prevent it?

I just can't see what's to be happy about here,

[stillcool]

10. I would think that any newly elected..

President would expect to be tested, wouldn't you? Especially with our presence across the globe, 2 wars, and economy that's in the shitter, huge job losses..etc, etc I guess speaking the truth will always get you in trouble.

[AspenRose]

11. Yes, I am giddy, DELIGHTED EVEN

I can't WAIT for our turn to kill people and blow stuff up! Yee-haw!

:eyes:

[4lbs]

4. Weren't there some people freaking out and saying Biden should have just shut up?

Oh well, Biden showed that he had the foresight and experience. It also highlighted what a great VP pick he is for Obama, because his view is in tune with what real experts have been saying.

[ellacott]

5. There was a reporter on Reliable Sources yesterday who didn't see anything wrong

with Biden's statement. Howie Kurtz tried to turn it back around and say it WAS a gaffe. The reporter wasn't buying it and he said it wasn't a gaffe. Howie then went to another reporter.

[central scrutinizer]

6. So, if Obama gets a intelligence briefing: "OBL set to attack targets in US"

He shouldn't just ignore it and go on clearing brush at his pig farm?

[Window]

7. K/R. Excellent!

:kick: