Chelsea Manning offers punditry on Iraq from prison

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/chelsea-manning-offers-punditry-iraq-prison



Chelsea Manning offers punditry on Iraq from prison
By Dan Lamothe
The Washington Post
© September 17, 2014

The simmering debate about the evolving U.S. military strategy in Iraq and Syria was joined on Tuesday by an unlikely pundit: Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning.

Manning, a former U.S. intelligence analyst convicted last year of leaking classified U.S. information to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, argues in a new piece for the Guardian newspaper that the United States cannot defeat the Islamic State militant group by bombing them, and should focus on containing them instead.

The piece says only that the writer, who joined the Army as a man known as Bradley Manning, was "in Fort Leavenworth," and does not mention her conviction or passing of military secrets. In a separate piece, the Guardian reports Tuesday that "Manning wrote the Guardian article in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is in military custody."

Manning's piece was published as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared on Capitol Hill for a hearing on the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Dempsey said that U.S. military advisers could find themselves involved in ground combat missions if needs dictate it.

[djean111]

1. I thought her advice seemed reasonable.

Don't know why the pictures and extra info about her legal troubles is relevant. Oh wait.

[pleinair]

2. sounds like good advice to me

Good article.