McChrystal to resign? NO PROBLEM! *She* is ready to serve!!!!
Posted on 09/22/2009 7:47:30 AM PDT by CWW
Exactly at the point that you realize that your death will be in vain, and the mission is a failure due to lack of leadership.
“How does a general resign?”
RETIREMENT OF GEN. SCOTT.; His Letter of Resignation to the Secretary of War. Order of the President Placing Him on the Retired List. Visit of the President and Cabinet to the General Interesting Ceremony. GEN. McCLELLAN’S ORDER ON ASSUMING COMMAND.
November 2, 1861, Wednesday
Page 1, 1585 words
April 20, 1861
Lee resigns from U.S. Army
Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union.
US Military Chief Quits Amid Claims of Iran Rift
Resignation prompts speculation that US military action against Iran is under consideration in Washington
The top US military commander in the Middle East is stepping down days after a magazine profile reported that he was trying to block US military action against Iran. Admiral William Fallon, the head of US Central Command, was described in an Esquire article last week as a lone voice within the administration arguing for restraint. Published: 3/11/2008
He can listen to his generals who are trying to WIN the war, or.......
He can listen to his moneyed supporters, his fanatice activists and his under-educated lumpen masses on the Left who want him to withdraw all our troops immediately.
Which way will the Gifted One jump?
Don't everyone answer all at one, LOL......
Leni
I agree. SOMEBODY needs to be an advocate for our troops, and it sure as H isn't going to be Obama and his anti-military minions.
Yon's Site
Afghanistan Force Requirements (PDF) - Kagan Report
And a CIC who does not.
He’s treating the military like it’s a political opponent. Does he even know he’s the Commander In Chief?
McChrystal to resign? NO PROBLEM! *She* is ready to serve!!!!
Amen. Refuse Defeat.
Isn’t he the guy that O appointed? He said he could do the job with existing resources.
Maybe we were lied to again?
Tisk tisk.... that’s racist of you
Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former Special Operations chief who is President Obama's new choice to lead the war in Afghanistan, rose to military prominence because of his single-minded success in a narrow but critical mission: manhunting.
As commander of the military's secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for nearly five years starting in 2003, McChrystal masterminded a campaign to perfect the art of tracking down enemies, and then capturing or killing them. He built a sophisticated network of soldiers and intelligence operatives who proceeded to decapitate the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and kill its most notorious leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He has also led the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders in AFGHANISTAN and Pakistan.
But, but, but it was the right war not the bad war, Obama said so. Whatever happened to common sense. Afghanistan is a tactical meat grinder, Iraq an open playing field that favors our firepower and mobility. Afghanistan has no economy beyond a 7th century agriculture - Iraq has the worlds second largest known oil reserve. Democrats are either demonically possessed or intuitively attracted to worse decisions possible. Play a delaying action in Afghanistan while building a lasting friend in Iraq. Remember people its Iran that we are after - not some 7th century hillbillies.
ping
I was speaking of McChrystal, not Obama. I was replying to a poster who seemed to think it was immoral and/or cowardly for McChrystal to resign. I maintain it was neither. If he does resign, it’s a matter of honor.
“Bambi better get off his butt and get moving:”
I agree but I don’t believe O has requested funding or started that process in the House and I heard this morning on the radio, the WH has ask him NOT to submit the report “officially” so they don’t have to act on it.
Remember, this was a confidential report, not yet submitted that was leaked to the media.
Both he and the SecDef need to also review staff on letting this report out.
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