{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"General Martin Dempsey, a Proven Military Failure, Selected for Top Pentagon Post","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article67772.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article67772.html'\u003EGeneral Martin Dempsey, a Proven Military Failure, Selected for Top Pentagon Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeneral Martin E. Dempsey is President Obama\u2019s choice to be the next Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.  General Dempsey was a miserable failure as the American commander charged with rebuilding the Iraqi Army from August 2005 to June 2007.  His botched training mission helped lead to such a deterioration of the situation in Iraq that a military surge was needed in January 2007.  His false and misleading statements to the news media about the \u201cprogress\u201d of the Iraqi Army have never (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}