Posted on 10/05/2009 6:19:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
How to proceed in Afghanistan will be among the most difficult and fateful decisions that President Obama ever makes. But he's the one who has to decide, not his generals. The men with the stars on their shoulders — and I say this with enormous respect for their patriotism and service — need to shut up and salute.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is entitled to his opinion about the best way forward. But he has no business conducting a public campaign to build support for his preferred option, which is to send tens of thousands more troops into a country once called the "graveyard of empires."
McChrystal's view — that a strategy employing fewer resources, in pursuit of more limited goals, would be "short-sighted" — is something the White House needs to hear. He is, after all, the man Obama put in charge in Afghanistan, and it would be absurd not to take his analysis of the situation into account.
But McChrystal is out of line in trying to sell his position publicly, as he did last week in a speech in London.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was right to lay down the law. Gates said Monday that it is "imperative" that military and civilian leaders "provide our best advice to the president candidly but privately."
I believe that's Pentagon-speak for: "Put a sock in it, Stan."
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Perhaps a Sig Heil is in order as well...
Mathews is very upset with 'the general' calling it a constitutional crisis, 'how dare he voice an opinion?? ' Mathews on the other hand loved generals on TV calling for surrender in Iraq under Bush, that was free speech.
The Obama regime's treachery and treason must be exposed and dealt with quickly.
Obama has no respect for freedom. His work since his phoney inauguration proves it.
Obama will create a war of attrition in Afghanistan, designed to grind down and ruin our military.It is already happening .
Welcome to Vietnam II.And further hatred of the federal government by Americans.
When will it end?
Wasn’t Eugene the genius that told us that the folks in the Superdome were eating each other?
Yep.
If this General is ignored or forced to retire because of his views … I think his public feedback will make Obama’s manhood shrivel. (I will leave Obama’s manhood question to others.). I think Obama has a tiger by the tail.
Hmmm...believe in the intellect of a general...or believe in the intellect of the Obamaloon.
You gotta be Obama-ing me!
The loon couldn’t outthink an boot camp private.
Yes, that shows enormous respect. /sarc
Yeah! Quit doin' your job, you....you... you GENERAL!
Well, if he’s going to let it be another Viet Nam, he should just bring our soldiers home.
Right. So the guys who have spent a CAREER studying the craft of war should just sit back and let some jackass who happened to win a popularity contest cause men and women to die from not having the first damn clue about anything to do with the military??
OMG - how can anyone be so deluded to think the zero results community organizer should be in charge of a GENERAL who deals with REAL life and death matters?
This is insanity.
Robinson needs to get his goatsmellin’ ass over there in a trench with an M-16 and then maybe I’d try to give a **** about anything he says. Until then he needs to STFU! He’s a punk!
My response on the Post site: Tell the President to start giving clear orders what he wants and the soldiers will obey. Indecision is the worst of the military vices after cowardice.
Wow. "Projectile vomit alerts" are usually just a rhetorical warning, but when I read this I actually threw up in my mouth a little. "The men with the stars on their shoulders" should spit in Ubama's fat face and resign before they let that sick Kenyan scumbag declare defeat in Afghanistan and waste the sacrifices of America's finest young men because all he can do is vote "present" as he tries to figure out what is politically best for himself.
There's still more than 3 years left of this p.o.s.
Wow.
Shut up and salute? Tell that to the Nazi’s who sat on trial for ‘shutting up and saluting’.
It will end 1-20-2013. Bank on it.
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