McChrystal Fired: Was the President Right?

June 23rd, 2010   (650 views )

President Barack Obama says he has accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Obama is naming Gen. David Petraeus to succeed him. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Obama said McChrystal's biting comments about the president and his aides in a magazine article did not meet the standards of conduct for a commanding
general.
So, we ask: McChrystal Fired: Was the President Right?

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Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
Unfortunately,Obama had to do it
But now I hope the General will speak out as to just what a ass this guy is
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 14:41
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
Or it's possible McChrystal was looking to get fired, a way out so to speak, not liking the direction this Administration was going?

No matter how they paint over it, the direction (health care reform) or lack of direction (everything else) by this administration, continues to bleed through.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 16:11
Comment from: Georgina [Visitor]
It seems weird that such an experienced general and other officers would say what they did to Rolling Stone. After hearing about the specifics, accepting his resignation was the only way forward.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 16:18
Comment from: John--- [Visitor] Email
Judging by his comments, it would appear that General McCrystal is more comfortable in his alliance and his dealings with Karzai- whom everyone knows is more corrupt- than he is an ally. In the military you have only two options once an order is given and accepted "standing up" or "resigning". This man violated the one rule that transcends all others, and he did it not only in the face of our President and all we stand for but, he also layed out the perfect recruitment tool for our enemies in a mass media format.

AMERICA MUST ASK ITSELF IF IT DETECTS IN ITS GENERALS WHO ARE OBLIGATED TO PROTECT US- EVEN A SINGLE SHRED OF WAVERING, INSUBORDINATION, COMPLIANCE OR ALLEGIANCE TO A GOVERNMENT OTHER THAN OUR OWN, THAT IS INFESTED WITH DESPICABLE PARTNERSHIPS, AND DIRECT TIES WITHIN ITS FAMILY, THAT OPENLY SUPPORTS INCLUSION OF THE TALIBAN OR AND OTHER INSURGIENT GROUP THEN, ...Cest la vie. What are we fighting for?

Since McCrystal, has already opined his darkest regrets about "his" own plan, and one that follows the directives and battleplan schemes of his own superior Gerneral Petreaus. Noting that the position that "he" now finds himself in is untenable, as it will reflect on "him"- makes "him" and not our soldiers,...
...corrupt Karzai, and not our nation as "his" prime concerns.
Sadly, this mans courage, dedication, and modus must be questioned. Was this untimely disclosure a message meant to give comfort to Karzai, or the enemy? Was it meant to convey the message to us that there would be no favorable outcome under "him", without a decade or more of desperation, occupation and trillions in resources that will be denied our own people during the period of time that our government and private industry are choking us from the inside? THAT AL QAEDA REMARK PARELLELING ARKANSAS AND BAPTIST CHURCHES- WAS PRICELESS! but, it summed up the utter futility of a military and a mission that refuses to address the primary source of terror and terrorist funding.
And once questioned, McCrystal must be summarily removed from his position in high command. Let him stand on the side, in an advisory capacity but, nothing more.
Right or not in his accessment the damage this man has done, to the military to execute "the" mission with credibility, is gone- finished, kaput, unless someone does what was expected from the mission, sans Afghanistan, a whole 9yrs ago.
THE MISSION- JUST IN CASE ANY OF YOU HAVE FORGOTTTEN WAS TO ELIMINATE THE HEADS OF AL QAEDA, IN ORDER TO MORE FULLY CUT OFF THE FUNDING SOURCES THAT FUELS THE INSURGIENCIES THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ACTIONS THAT REIGN TERROR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

We might want to add these other finer points and quotients to the equation. In this new "don't ask, dont tell" atmosphere what was the motivational objectivity for our allies, in this crews insults regarding the French ambassador? How does that help our cause as being the champions of equal rights? What does it say to our own troops, serving in combat, under his command?


PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 16:25
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
NO. Take this decision from where it comes from--Obama. In Obama's make-blieve world of college, the boy professor, community organizer does not have a clue on how to judge a military man with McChrystal's background.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 16:31
Comment from: Jerry [Visitor] Email · http://Visitor
Whatever happened to the liberals claim to freedom of speech?
I guess it is different when it aimed at one of their own.
It appears that he can not state his own views without the liberals crying foul.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 16:43
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
He was left with "no"choice in the matter.
Talk about your boss or supervisor in such a public arena as a newspaper and see what your fate will be.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 18:04
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/2qj5yy
Afghanistan opium at record high
27 August 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2qj5yy
The UN says opium production in Afghanistan has soared to record levels, with an increase on last year of more than a third.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime report says the amount of opium produced there has doubled in the last two years.
It says Helmand province is now the biggest single drug-producing area in the world, surpassing whole countries such as Colombia.
Afghanistan now accounts for more than 93% of the world's opiates.
Despite billions of dollars of aid and tens of thousands of international troops, the report says 193,000 hectares of opium poppies are being grown in Afghanistan.
'Insurgency link'
"The results are very bad, terrifyingly bad, because cultivation has increased by 17% to an historic level," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the Office on Drugs and Crime. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6965115.stm
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 18:22
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/3my59t
The Big Question: Why is opium production rising in Afghanistan, and can it be stopped? / 14 October 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/3my59t
Why are we asking this now?
Nato and the US are ramping up the war on drugs in Afghanistan. American ground forces are set to help guard poppy eradication teams for the first time later this year, while Nato's defence ministers agreed to let their 50,000-strong force target heroin laboratories and smuggling networks.
Until now, going after drug lords and their labs was down to a small and secretive band of Afghan commandos, known as Taskforce 333, and their mentors from Britain's Special Boat Service. Eradicating poppy fields was the job of specially trained, but poorly resourced, police left to protect themselves from angry farmers. All that is set to change.
How big is the problem?
Afghanistan is by far and away the world's leading producer of opium. Opium is made from poppies, and it is used to make heroin. Heroin from Afghanistan is smuggled through Pakistan, Russia, iran and Turkey until it ends up on Europe's streets.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-big-question-why-is-opium-production-rising-in-afghanistan-and-can-it-be-stopped-960276.html
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 18:23
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/3m8kcj
Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
http://tinyurl.com/3m8kcj
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060921&articleId=3294
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 18:25
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/27p6c8o
Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
October 27, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/27p6c8o

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=3&hp
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 18:26
McChrystal Out, Petraeus In, Yet Buffoonish Commander-In-Chief Remains:

2010 June 23


After expressing grave misgivings about his dawdling, unserious, greenhorn Commander-in-Chief’s policies, Gen. Stanley McChrystal is history.

In a sensational Rolling Stone interview appropriately titled “The Runaway General,” McChrystal and his staffers were quite right to be critical of President Obama’s non-strategy for not winning the war in Afghanistan, but in a constitutional republic propriety requires that top generals keep their mouths (and the mouths of their aides) shut in public. Rolling Stone has a long history of blindly opposing war in general so it seems reasonable to assume the magazine went with the article in an effort to undermine America’s war effort. Longtime leftist Jann Wenner, founder of the magazine, wouldn’t have it any other way.

McChrystal’s first meeting with Obama was a disaster. Obama clearly didn’t give a farthing’s cuss about the general or about the conduct of the war. “It was a 10-minute photo op,” said a McChrystal aide. “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his f***ing war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.”

Last fall as McChrystal urged Obama to ramp up the Afghanistan war and send more troops Obama began a three-month review to meet with MoveOn and his paymaster George Soros re-consider his strategy for ensuring U.S. defeat in Afghanistan. “I found that time painful,” the general told Rolling Stone.

Reading the article closely, it’s not so much what the general himself said but rather what Team McChrystal said. Presumably the man surrounds himself with people who are onboard with him and who more or less reflect his views about the situation in Afghanistan.

Unless McChrystal is a complete logorrheic goober who just opens his mouth and allows his thoughts to escape Tourette’s Syndrome-style –I suspect he is not– then this must be deliberate on his part.

As Freud would say, McChrystal wanted to be fired because he didn’t want to be a part of a losing non-strategy. If so he got his wish. The general quite properly tendered his resignation to President Obama and Obama accepted it. Reports indicate Obama has selected Gen. David Petraeus to succeed McChrystal as supreme commander in the Afghanistan/Pakistan theater of war.

PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 21:11
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email · http://www.debka.com/article/8868/
Iran on war alert over "US and Israeli concentrations" in Azerbaijan:

June 23, 2010

In a rare move, Iran has declared a state of war on its northwestern border, debkafile's military and Iranian sources report. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps men and equipment units are being massed in the Caspian Sea region against what Tehran claims are US and Israeli forces concentrated on army and air bases in Azerbaijan ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
The announcement came on Tuesday, June 22 from Brig.-Gen Mehdi Moini of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), commander of the forces tasked with "repelling" this American-Israeli offensive. He said: "The mobilization is due to the presence of American and Israeli forces on the western border," adding, "Reinforcements are being dispatched to West Azerbaijan Province because some western countries are fueling ethnic conflicts to destabilize the situation in the region."

In the past, Iranian officials have spoken of US and Israel attacks in general terms. debkafile's Iranian sources note that this is the first time that a specific location was mentioned and large reinforcements dispatched to give the threat substance.

Other Iranian sources report that in the last few days, Israel has secretly transferred a large number of bomber jets to bases in Azerbaijan, via Georgia, and that American special forces are also concentrated in Azerbaijan in preparation for a strike.

No comment has come from Azerbaijan about any of these reports. Iranian Azerbaijan, the destination of the Revolutionary Guards forces reinforcements, borders on Turkey, Iraq and Armenia. Witnesses say long IRGC convoys of tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft units and infantry are seen heading up the main highways to Azerbaijan and then further north to the Caspian Sea.

On Tuesday, June 22, Dr. Uzi Arad, head of Israel's National Security Council and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest adviser, said "The latest round of UN Security Council sanctions on Iran is inadequate for thwarting its nuclear progress. A preemptive military strike might eventually be necessary."

debkafile's intelligence and Iranian sources point to three other developments as setting off Iran's war alert:
1. A certain (limited) reinforcement of American and Israeli forces has taken place in Azerbaijan. Neither Washington nor Jerusalem has ever acknowledged a military presence in this country that borders on Iran, but Western intelligence sources say that both keep a wary eye on the goings-on inside Iran from electronic surveillance bases in that country.
2. Iran feels moved to respond to certain US steps: The arrival of the USS Harry S. Truman Strike Group in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea and its war games with France and Israel, which included live-fire bombing practices against targets in Iran.
3. The execution of Abdolmalek Rigi, head of the Sunni Baluchi rebel organization (including the Iranian Baluchis), on June 20 was intended as a deterrent for Iran's other minorities. Instead, they are more restive than ever. Several Azeri breakaway movements operate in Iranian Azerbaijan in combination with their brethren across the border. Tehran decided a substantial buildup in the province would serve as a timely measure against possible upheavals.
PermalinkPermalink 06/23/10 @ 21:36
Saving Obama from Himself :

Obama’s campaign attacks against Bush now apply to his presidency.

June 24, 2010


Do you remember candidate Barack Obama offering his hope-and-change platitudes in front of the fake Greek columns during the Democratic convention? Or, earlier, pontificating at the Victory Monument in Berlin?

Why didn’t an old cigar-chomping Democratic pro take him aside and warn him about offending Nemesis? She is the dreaded goddess who brings divine retribution in ironic fashion to overweening arrogance.

Or maybe a friend could have whispered to Senator Obama to tone it down when he was merciless in damning the Bush administration for its supposedly slow response to Hurricane Katrina.

Obama railed that Bush showed “unconscionable ineptitude.” Obama further charged that Bush’s response was “achingly slow,” a result of “passive indifference,” and that his team was rife with “corruption and cronyism.”

Those phrases now apply to Obama himself, as he seems lost amid his own disaster — eerily, in about the same Gulf environs. Adding insult to injury, a recent poll revealed that Louisiana residents thought Bush had done a better job with Katrina than Obama has with BP.

Couldn’t one of Obama’s many handlers have warned him to ignore the media’s tingling-leg gaga worship, or their nonsense that Obama is “a god”?

Didn’t Team Obama ever suspect that such an unhinged press, in the manner of a Greek chorus, could just as easily sour on their prophet once his poll ratings fell as quickly as they had soared?

Couldn’t David Axelrod have admonished his candidate to cut out the creepy stuff about himself and his throng being “the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Why was there a need for all that megalomaniac hocus-pocus about slowing the “rise of the oceans” and healing the planet? Sure enough, Nemesis ensured that instead of Lord Poseidon lowering the seas, Obama is a smoky Hephaestus fouling them up.
Did the Nobel Committee members really think they were doing their post-national, post-racial heartthrob any good by giving him a peace prize even though he lacked any record of foreign-policy accomplishment? Didn’t his Scandinavian admirers grasp that prophets suffer the wages of hypocrisy far more readily than mere mortals when things go badly, as they inevitably do? Jay Leno is now more likely to use the phrase “Nobel Laureate Obama” than a serious diplomat.

For nearly two years, Senator, Candidate, and Freshman President Obama ridiculed his predecessor — as if running the executive were as easy a job as community organizing, serving a couple of years in the Senate, or campaigning for president.

But now the once-enthralled electorate is starting to tire of the hope-and-change platitudes, and even of the easy blame-gaming of his predecessor, mostly because almost everything Obama once demagogued is in weird fashion now coming back to haunt him.

Obama easily damned everything from Guantanamo Bay to Predator drone attacks in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, only to adopt those policies and more from Bush.

He sermonized about the morals of a corrupt Republican Congress, only to keep quiet about earmarks, lobbyists, and the sins of Democratic cronies such as Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Charles Rangel.

Deficits were once supposed proof of Bush’s out-of-control spending. What does far greater red ink say about Obama?

If only swaggering George W. Bush could have been smart enough to reach out to Cuba, Iran, and Syria. Then Obama did just that, only to make bad things even worse.

And remember the Obama comment about an arrogant Bush turning off our allies? Why, then, does an aloof Obama seem to alienate them even more?

The reality of Barack Obama is that he was an inexperienced community organizer with an undistinguished record as a Senate newcomer. A perfect storm of popular anger at eight years of George Bush, a lackluster John McCain campaign, Obama’s landmark candidacy as a black American, a disingenuous campaign promising centrist and bipartisan governance, and the financial meltdown in 2008 got the relatively untried and unknown Obama elected.

Most mortals in Obama’s position would have treaded lightly. They would have kept promises, steered a moderate course, and listened more than lectured until they won over the public with concrete achievement.

But headstrong tragic figures do not do that. They neither welcome in critics nor would listen to them if they did. They impute their unforeseen temporary success to their own brilliance — and expect it to continue forever. So would-be gods set themselves up for a fall far harder than what happens to the rest of us.

That’s about where we are now, with our president playing a character right out of Greek tragedy who, true to form, is railing about the unfairness of it all.
PermalinkPermalink 06/24/10 @ 20:56
Comment from: Bill F. [Visitor] Email · http://www.rnntv.com/message.php
Obama Needs to Find His Inner W.

Now that Obama has picked Bush’s general, he should replicate Bush’s stalwart style.

June 25, 2010 12:00 A.M.



To succeed in Afghanistan, we’ll need the support of the likes of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha. He was the daring tribal sheik in Anbar province whose pivot against al-Qaeda in the summer of 2006 began to turn the Iraq War.

He marshaled other tribal leaders in what grew into a nationwide anti-al-Qaeda movement. Sattar acted knowing that the Americans had his back. “Instead of telling [the Iraqis] that we would leave soon and they must assume responsibility for their own security,” Col. Sean MacFarland, who worked with Sattar, has explained, “we told them that we would stay as long as necessary to defeat the terrorists.”

Sattar trusted Pres. George W. Bush and admired him “for sticking to his principles despite public opinion.” All of this is recounted in the new book on the Anbar revolt, A Chance in Hell, by Jim Michaels. As Mark Moyar writes in a review in the Wall Street Journal, it was only by winning the confidence of elites like Sattar — who was killed in September 2007 — that we had a chance to win over the Iraqi population.

What would Sattar have made of Pres. Barack Obama, who has set a deadline of July 2011 for the beginning of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and of Vice President Joe Biden, who guaranteed in a Newsweek interview — “Bet. On. It.” — that there will be large numbers of troops leaving by then? We know what Afghan president Hamid Karzai thinks — that he’d better explore an accommodation with his enemies well before any helicopters leave the U.S. embassy rooftop.

Obama implicitly promised a departure from the bumptious ways of George W. Bush as commander-in-chief. Where Bush was stubborn, he’d be flexible; where Bush was unconditional, he’d be nuanced; where Bush went all in, he’d avoid overcommitting. But ambivalence doesn’t play well in a war zone, especially in a war of insurgency that’s partly a contest over staying power.

If Obama’s July 2011 deadline showcased his deliberative care as the honorary faculty chairman of national-security meetings, it played disastrously in Afghanistan. In sacking Rolling Stone subject Gen. Stanley McChrystal and replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, Obama has a chance to hit “reset.” But only if he finds his inner cowboy.

There’s no way the Afghan equivalent of Sattar sitting somewhere on the outskirts of Kandahar can know Obama’s intentions when members of Obama’s council of war don’t know them. Biden says July 2011 marks the start of major withdrawals; secretary of defense Robert Gates disagrees. Who’s to say?

To put the severity of a hard July 2011 deadline in perspective, the last unit of the surge Obama ordered last December won’t arrive in Afghanistan until toward the end of the year. The deadline gives the fully surged forces all of six months to operate, in an environment Petraeus says is more difficult than Iraq.

Obama should redefine the deadline as the time frame for a review of the current strategy rather than its endpoint. If it’s not working, then he can reconsider. Until then, he should shut down the rancorous internal debate within his administration and maintain the same firm tone he struck in his excellent Rose Garden remarks upon McChrystal’s departure.

His left might not like it, but they won’t berate him as a “chicken hawk,” as they did with Bush, or flail his chosen commanding general as “General Betray Us,” as MoveOn.org did during the Iraq surge.

Besides, his base isn’t his target audience. As President Bush always said, there were four key audiences during the Iraq War — the American public, the troops, our Iraq allies, and the enemy. “The enemy thinks that we are weak,” he said in a candid White House interview during a low point of the surge. “They’re sophisticated people, and they listen to the debate.”

That’s just as true of the enemy in Afghanistan. Now that Obama has picked Bush’s general, he should replicate his stalwart style.
PermalinkPermalink 06/26/10 @ 10:20
Into Battle Once More:

The president turns to a military leader whose winning strategy in Iraq he dismissed out of hand....

June 24 2010

In the long and proud history of the United States military, talented, dedicated commanders have led their troops to the sounds of the guns time and again to defend those who could not defend themselves. General David Petreaus proved his mettle in Iraq by devising and implanting a strategy that provided security for innocent Iraqis under attack by Islamic fanatics. Now he’s being asked to march into battle once more, but this time the guns are sounding on two different fronts: in Afghanistan where a resurgent, increasingly confident Taliban makes headway in the war that our president has said we have to win; and in Washington, where the conflict is of the political variety in the wake of General McChrystal’s dismissal [1] after that highly decorated soldier expressed his frustration with an administration that seems to specialize in vacillation.

With no relief in sight for the economy, no end in sight for the disaster in the gulf and an ever-increasing number of voters starting to realize that this administration is woefully unprepared, intellectually overmatched and ideologically handicapped when it comes to dealing with the great issues of the day, Obama desperately needs a victory somewhere, somehow. Failing in Afghanistan, especially in the wake McChrystal’s damning criticism, would practically guarantee that a Republican tsunami would sweep scores of Democrats out of office in November. And so the president has turned to the nation’s most accomplished, most respected military leader, a man whose strategy in Iraq he dismissed out of hand and whom, when this dedicated patriot was the subject of shameless slurs by his leftist allies, Obama could not be bothered to defend. Professional that he is, Petreaus will continue to forget the criticisms, slights and slurs and do what American military leaders have always done: follow the orders of the commander in chief, no matter how incompetent and hypocritical that commander may be.

A certain United States senator representing the state of Illinois didn’t seem quite so enamored of General David Petreaus three and a half short years ago. That’s when Petreaus took command in Iraq, replacing General George Casey (the Army’s current chief of staff, and the man who believes that the most tragic aspect of the Fort Hood shootings is the possible loss of “diversity” in the armed forces). Petreaus asked for more troops and proposed changes in strategy. Democrats from Harry Reid through John Muthra criticized the general’s proposals, having decided that the war in Iraq was lost. Then senator Barack Obama assured America that “the surge” could not possibly work [2], saying:

“We can send 15,000 more troops, 20,000 more troops, 30,000 more troops – I don’t know any expert on the region or any military officer that I’ve spoken to privately that believes that is going to make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.”

Apparently neither Obama nor his vice president [3] talked to the right “experts on the region” or to any military officers who understood how to conduct counter-insurgency operations. Petreaus was vindicated in short order as the situation in Iraq turned around after the surge. Not surprisingly, the Obama administration employed selective memory earlier this year, apparently forgetting any criticism of Petreaus’ strategic vision, as vice president Joe Biden rushed to cling to the general’s coat tails [4]. “I am very optimistic about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration,” Biden declared in a moment that redefined hypocrisy.

A few months after Petreaus assumed command, the ultra-leftist, Obama-loving organization MoveOn.org attacked the general, slurring him as “General Betray Us [5]” in an ad they placed in the New York Times in September 2007. Among other slanders, MoveOn accused Petreaus of “cooking the books” in order to make the Bush White House look good. Then-senator Hillary Clinton jumped on the bandwagon during congressional hearings, badgering the general in confrontations [6] that left her looking like a partisan hack.

Three and a half years after Petreaus first started pulling George W. Bush’s chestnuts out of the fire in Iraq, Barack Obama hopes that the general can work the same magic again for him in Afghanistan. But there’s a difference. When General Casey was replaced in January 2007, he was critical of the administration’s new strategy [7], saying:

“The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And the other thing is that they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term.”

George W. Bush, who always had a fierce loyalty and admiration towards anyone serving our nation in uniform, didn’t chastise Casey or attempt to derail his career because of those remarks. Casey’s current assignment is a testament to that fact. On the other hand, Barack Obama may be the most thin-skinned president in the history of the Republic. He didn’t hesitate to leave his hand-picked commander, General McChrystal, swinging in the breeze when the going got tough. If General David Petreaus can’t figure out a way to solve the multi-faceted enigma that is Afghanistan, there can be little doubt that he will suffer the same fate.
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