Yeah, “opted” after the phone call from the WH.
That said, it doesn’t matter why he did it. A military official should never call a private citizen about anything.
This is especially true in the case of an obscure nutcase who would have been forgotten after that bizarre event a couple of years ago except that Obama keeps it in the public view.
Does anybody know of any precedent for this? The head of the military calling a private citizen to tell him to not to do something?
Well, maybe getting off with just a phone call is a good thing. If Obama gets reelected, they’ll probably just come and haul Jones off to prison - along with a lot of much more modest, completely innocuous folks who have offended Islam simply by breathing. Most of us here will probably be among them.
Or send a drone.