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Posted on 10/04/2009 4:07:18 PM PDT by opentalk
Who told him to be furious?
Our Generals, are standing on the banks of the Rubicon.
The president will replace McChrystal with General McClellan.
this is not Truman and MacArthur, but it is parallel.
Obama probably told the General that he is to keep his opinions to himself henceforth.
and...no doubt...Obama probably told his staff to research the Army command and find out who to name as the next Afghanistan commander....and he should replace the general right now...he cannot give the Army command of US foreign policy.
now i am not even saying who is right about what to do in Afghanistan....but the General has (IMHO) crossed the line into the political arena...
Obama is not going to get this right. But he is CinC.
McCrystal should resign and go public with his objections.
He doesn't even do that anymore....hell, Air Force One is already due for a major maintenance overhaul.
Wear the uniform, follow the orders. Tell your boss he is wrong (I have) - then follow orders.
Don't think the boss will listen - go into the meeting with a letter of resignation in your pocket.
This General is gonna get fired...it won’t happen for awhile but happen it will.....someday in the near future the General will *retire*...
Obama will do nothing for the troops if it harms his domestic agenda.
"Robert McNamara and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's staff . . . were more concerned with political victories in the US, than military victories in South Vietnam." [A review of book, below]
Colonel H.R. McMaster, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, wrote Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.
The book took 5 years to research and was completed in 1997 as a part of McMaster's Ph.D. thesis at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It's been ten years since I read it but I think an important point was the generals should have been forthright with the civilians and Maxwell Taylor, Kennedy's powerful military adviser then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who remained with LBJ through 1964.
It seemed that not even LeMay stood up, if I remember correctly -- except when he and his cigar always positioned themselves next to Taylor who hated smoking.
Never again!
“Methinks Zero’s lack of everything that counts is really showing.”
Not only that, it is being acknowledged around the globe. Not only have the American people started waking up, other world leaders, no doubt are too. The problem with this and Zero’s being a WEAK leader (HE IS NO LEADER ... HE’S SOMEONE’S PUPPET) they will take full advantage of this. You really have to wonder what the Russians are talking to Iran about and China with North Korea. I think we can agree that the media is not getting the truth about their discussions.
McChrystal is to succeed Army Gen. David McKiernan, whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired last month after less than a year in the post. McKiernan was ousted for four main reasons, a senior U.S. military official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to reporters.
Gates and Army Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command, thought he was too slow to reach out to local security leaders in eastern Afghanistan. McKiernan also opposed adding a three-star general in Afghanistan to deal with day-to-day operations. There also were concerns that his request for 30,000 additional troops was shaped by how much strain the military could handle, not by the requirements on the ground. Finally, the senior military official said, the administration was concerned about mounting civilian causalities.
There is also the little trick Clinton came up with. "You can resign and go public, but your pension check might get lost for a long time. And you'll find that nobody wants you for any speaking gigs."
Obama is killing our best and bravest by dithering. The only card McChrystal has to play is to abruptly resign. Nothing would focus the harsh light of criticism on Obama's incompetence more acutely than for his hand-picked Afghanistan commander to abruptly quit on him.
Do not think he is on active duty therefore he isn't eligible.
Nothing reported on tonight’s NBC Nightly News. No surprise there...
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