Fare Thee Well Stan McChrystal

[Geee]

Front Page Magazine:

The flap about General Stanley McChrystal’s “resignation” was nobody’s finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond any of the individuals involved— the general, the president or any of the officials at the Pentagon or the State Department.
What is far more important than all these individuals put together are the lives of the tens of thousands of Americans fighting in Afghanistan. What is even more important is the national security of this country.

It is certainly not politic for a general or his staff to express their contempt for civilian authorities publicly. But what is far more important— from the standpoint of national security— is whether what those authorities have done deserves contempt.

My hope is that General McChrystal will write a book about his experiences in Afghanistan— and in Washington. The public needs to know what is really going on, and they are not likely to get that information from politicians.

This is, after all, an administration that waited for months last year before acting on General McChrystal’s urgent request for 40,000 more troops, which he warned would be necessary to prevent the failure of the mission in Afghanistan. He got 30,000 eventually— and a public statement by President Obama about when he wants to start withdrawing American troops from that country.

In no previous period of history has an American president announced a timetable for pulling out troops. They may have had a timetable in mind, but none of these presidents was irresponsible enough to tell the world— including our enemies— when our troops would be leaving.

Such information encourages our enemies, who know that they need only wait us out before they can take over, whether in Afghanistan or elsewhere. At the same time, it undermines our allies, who know that relying on the United States is dangerous in the long run, and that they had better make the best deal they can get with our enemies.

But the worst aspect of the national security policy of this administration is its clear intention to do nothing that has any realistic chance of stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

[Pepper]

Many are jumping on McChrystal.

 

McChrystal

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[Guest AnneV]

Front Page Magazine:

My hope is that General McChrystal will write a book about his experiences in Afghanistan— and in Washington. The public needs to know what is really going on, and they are not likely to get that information from politicians.

 

Me too!

I hope he spills the beans on the incompetence of the Obummer, and his regime!

[SrWoodchuck]

Speculation on BlackFive.com that the McChrystal flap is being used to cover up a massive scandal about Obama payouts to Taliban chieftans & Warlords........bribes not to fight & to allow safe passage of supply convoys......totalling multi-million dollars & not effective.

 

 

What Obama doesn't want you to know

[Pepper]

SrWoodChuck!

 

Eight men were killed yesterday in combat: four Americans and four NATO troops.

 

Rest In Peace. My prayers for the families of these brave men.

 

Bring them home. We have a corrupt President.

 

from last paragraph in that link

 

The blood of all coalition soldiers and civilians, the blood of all Afghan and foreign contractors, who have died along the supply routes in southern Afghanistan since the signing of the HNT contract, falls to the hands of the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

Upon a clear-eyed assessment, the American people will in time realize that Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates should have been on the chopping block, today, not General McChrystal.