Posted on 06/22/2010 1:25:38 PM PDT by DGHoodini
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WHoops! How’d I post it that many times? Sorry.
A primary reason I never saw myself taking the career path was just this; politics. A man spends 30+ years climbing the ladder then gets his career bombed by politics. I watched my dad do it. He did 30 by playing politics and selling out his ethics to do it.
He can criticize Obama all he wants after retirement.
Maj Gen Paul Vallely: We need to demand resignations of Obama, his cabinet, and members of Congress
That’s not what Klein said on CNN the first time with Blitzer.
Ya can’t bump this enough.
This is pivotal, pivotal moment.
Going off to read anita’s post.
Breaking: General Stanley McChrystal tenders his resignation
A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House is actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate.
The source said that among the names being touted as possible successors are General James Mattis, the outgoing head of the US Joint Forces Command and due to retire after being passed over as US Marine Corps commander, and Lieutenant General William Caldwell, commander of Nato’s Training Mission in Afghanistan.
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Right . No credible news outlet backs this up .
Maybe McChrystal did vote for Zippy Pinhead but apparently came to see the light...??? I don’t know, have always seen tension there, saw the awkwardness of McC proclaiming the PC ROE.
If he’s gone, we damn well need a general who knows how to look out for our troops because the CINC doesn’t, nor do precious few others.
This is a bad situation, an outcome that I do not believe was planned. Believe it or not, Sen. Kerry seems to be the only grown-up in the room at the moment, calling for “cool heads.”
>>He said the one person he likes in the Administration is Hillary Clinton.
What does he mean by “likes”?? Right now, if any member of the Obama administration was on fire, I’d hide the fire extinguisher and watch. But, for Hillary I’d at least leave it where she could reach it. So, technically, I like her better than anyone else in his administration.
According to Rep. Cao that is now dedicated for use by oil executives.
Washington DC Critters should do the same. Virtually all of them would be dead for lack of honor though.
RE: “McChrystal was be fully aware of the consequences of openly criticizing his CIC.
However this came down, it was McChrystal who orchestrated it.”
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NO WAY did this general NOT know in advance that anything he said to a leftist rag like Rolling Stone could cause him to lose his post. I strongly suspect he just didn’t care anymore, and McChrystal figured what the h*ll!
Given that McChrystal was supposedly initially an Obama supporter made it all the more frustrating for him when he never got what he needed from Obama in the war effort.
The general will always be a general, but he will be free to speak out on everything if he chooses to do so.
The underlying war has been going on intermittently for roughly a millennium, so we can safely assume its latest incarnation will continue as long.
With regard to Joseph Collins’ article “What civil-military crisis?” [February], the statement that a proposed “code of conduct” for senior officer retirees “would not bind retirees who are private citizens with full civil rights” generates a point of order that is substantively important to the debate over the propriety of post-retirement political stances by general and flag officers.
Retired general and flag officers are not, in fact, “private citizens with full civil rights.” Rather, retirement pay is more akin to retainer pay than a vested pension. Retired officers are not truly retired. Their names are simply moved from the active-duty list to the retired list. Commissions endure for the officer’s lifetime, and retired officers remain subject to recall until death; to wit, Gen. Peter Schoomaker had been retired for almost three years when he was recalled to serve as chief of staff of the Army in 2003.
Moreover, Uniform Code of Military Justice jurisdiction remains attached to the officer for his lifetime (though the Defense Department has voluntarily self-imposed restraints on the recall of retirees to active service to stand trial by court-martial, more as a function of system efficiency than legal mandate.) Because retired officers retain their commissions for life, they are never again truly “private citizens,” except in the most colloquial usage of the term. Moreover, because they are subject to recall at the secretary’s beck, and because the UCMJ technically still governs conduct until death terminates jurisdiction, retired officers never enjoy the full panoply of a nonofficer’s civil rights.
Internalizing this distinction — that an officer never stops “being” an officer, both legally and, in most instances, culturally — informs the debate on the wisdom and propriety of post-retirement political conduct.
Finally, the creation of a new “code of conduct” for senior retired officers is not necessary. All that is necessary to ensure appropriate retired conduct is extension of the express applicability of DoD standards of conduct regulations to retired officers, including the requirement to file annual public financial-disclosure statements that they were required to file on active duty. The regulatory modification, when coupled with a few well-publicized examples of secretarial discipline for failure to comply, would speak volumes about the imposition of civilian control over the post-retirement conduct of commissioned officers.
Lt. Col. Butch Bracknell, Marine Corps
Joint Center for Operational Analysis,
U.S. Joint Forces Command
Norfolk, Va.
From the Armed Forces Journal
http://www.afji.com/2010/03/4500267/
Perhaps you know more about the subject than Col. Bracknell.
Yeah ;-)
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