CYA as usual? Is that what you suggest? Give me a break: most of these guys get a comfortable job and a comfortable paycheck. It’s about f’in time someone stuck their neck out and said what needed to be said. It is a war, after all, not a bureaucratic cluster....
Hardly. And if anyone is CYA'ing it is Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling (trying to come off as the smartest man in the room....to the press that is). His assertions regarding Iraq (currently) and the lead up to it....are based on half-truths and incomplete true overviews....
Furthermore, fully understanding that war today is fought within a PR reality like at no time in our history's past.....Giving PR victories (and encouragement) to your enemy via the certainty of how the MSM will use your writings (words) is flat out wrong.
What we have accomplished in the last 5 1/2 years of this WOT is utterly amazing. That is one of the dirty little secrets nobody wants to focus on or talk about.....
Furthermore, what Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling is saying here...isn't nothing bold...it is the same monday morning quarterbacking PC BS we've been hearing from the MSM (and their six retired Gen's) for the past 3 years.
No, it is men like LTG Boykin who have actually really spoken the truth and said what needed to be said....Only to be "forced" into retirement by exactly the process of which Lt. Col Yingling is encouraging more of!! Congressional involvement in the selection of Generals.
His solutions to some of the current difficulties / problems are foolishness.