Posted on 06/22/2010 1:25:38 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Time author on CNN stated a WH source told him that McChrystal has submitted his resignation, but Obama has not yet accepted it.
Not only no, but hell no.
Agreed. Hopeful Good News Bump.
Tatt
No dice. He admittedly voted for Obama (how is he going to explain that while attempting to distinguish himself on policy, specifically domestic). His criticisms, while perhaps valid, could be argued as showing lack of respect for his commander. His record while in Afghanistan, even if not good for other reasons, is still on him and will be used against him. Not the best choice imho.
I have a problem with that. What if McChrystal really wanted/tried to change the system and the policies from within? Should he give and abandon the troops he's fighting for?
Wouldn't a resignation months ago have simply allowed Obama to install another sycophant general?
Once he resigns/is fired he becomes an outsider with a grudge. Saying these things while in command cannot be hidden.
My problem is with his apology.
That maybe the case, but violating the UCMJ was a dumb way to do it. It’s not good for those below to see the people at the top violating the UCMJ.
I don’t know what to think of the webbot project, but if memory serves, the early report from this year called for something like this and said it was an “important temporal marker” or something along those lines.
Also called for some sort of major coastal event before Deepwater Horizon blew up.
Hmmm.
The Japanese officers used to commit seppuku to save honor.
Here.. they insult the Pres__ent.. and get fired. a kinder gentler regime.
Sooo.. We lose another battlefield warrior .. but on a different kind of battlefield .. one not founded in reality these days but in submission and commitment to his orders.
Waging Peace in Afghanistan is Hell, the General joins a throng of those who came before him.
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy SEALs, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority. After arriving in Kabul last summer, Team America set about changing the culture of the International Security Assistance Force, as the NATO-led mission is known. (U.S. soldiers had taken to deriding ISAF as short for "I Suck at Fighting" or "In Sandals and Flip-Flops.") McChrystal banned alcohol on base, kicked out Burger King and other symbols of American excess, expanded the morning briefing to include thousands of officers and refashioned the command center into a Situational Awareness Room, a free-flowing information hub modeled after Mayor Mike Bloomberg's offices in New York. He also set a manic pace for his staff, becoming legendary for sleeping four hours a night, running seven miles each morning, and eating one meal a day. (In the month I spend around the general, I witness him eating only once.) It's a kind of superhuman narrative that has built up around him, a staple in almost every media profile, as if the ability to go without sleep and food translates into the possibility of a man single-handedly winning the war. By midnight at Kitty O'Shea's, much of Team America is completely shitfaced. Two officers do an Irish jig mixed with steps from a traditional Afghan wedding dance, while McChrystal's top advisers lock arms and sing a slurred song of their own invention. "Afghanistan!" they bellow. "Afghanistan!" They call it their Afghanistan song. McChrystal steps away from the circle, observing his team. "All these men," he tells me. "I'd die for them. And they'd die for me."
You can guarantee it's a factor for Zero accepting his resignation.
I’ll bet a paper nickel on it....
would be interesting to see if some of the ROE that the troops were complaining about were his idea or from the administration.
...or George Soros’ course...
According to Rep. Cao that is now dedicated for use by oil executives.
According to Rep. Cao that is now dedicated for use by oil executives.
It would be an issue because he voted for him in '08. Four years later he would have to explain what distinguishes him from Obama on policy, specifically domestic policy, since he voted for him. Reagan had several decades to distiguish himself from his Democratic past and had done that on the radio, in print and by supporting Republican candidates. None of this McChrystal has done, and to run in 2012, he would have a very short time to do it in. He would look like a flip-flopper or someone who was simply running because he was looking to get back at Obama.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/latest-mcchrystal-developments/
[Updated at 4:41 p.m.] Gen. Stanley McChrystal has submitted his resignation, Time magazine’s Joe Klein told CNN, citing an unnamed source. CNN is working to confirm Klein’s information.
labels like ‘battle hardened’ ‘combat tested’ ‘a notch above ruthless’ fit , ‘anything blows’ .. ‘up’ that is, ,, the winner tho .. ‘completely shitfaced’ ..
Git R Done!
This area is almost as dangerous as the streets of Chicago over the week-end. Ya need to blow off steam.
It was bad enough I was in during the Clinton years and they were bad.
The General that wins the WoT gets my vote..
not sure he has been born yet tho. ;-)
ping
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