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Editor says, what if General McChrystal had never taking his eye off the real enemy: the wimps in the White House? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2010, on this day the newly appointed Secretary of General Affairs David Petraeus appeared on the White House Lawn to re-assure the American people that he had ordered Commander General Stanley A. McChrystal to fly back to Kabul to resume his leadership of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Run It His Way GeneralThe publication of a critical article in Rolling Stone Magazine had demonstrated that civilian control of the military was no longer workable because politicans had eroded the trust necessary for the team to work together to achieve our objectives in Afghanistan, declared Petraeus. "Whilst McChrystal's behaviour did not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general, he had nevertheless earned a reputation as one of our nation's finest soldiers".
"Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his f*#king war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed"
The creation of an all-powerful Cabinet position would enable Barack Obama to focus on the financial crisis, whilst the military focused on achieving a successful outcome to the Aghanistan mission before the intended withdrawal scheduled for summer 2011.
President Obama confirmed that there was "no difference in policy with General McChrystal because we are in full agreement about our strategy" and he would not stand in the way of the US Government's decision through "any sense of personal insult" arising from McChrystal's recorded statements. The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai had expressed his hope that "We hope there is not a change of leadership of the international forces here in Afghanistan and that we continue to partner with Gen. McChrystal".
To demonstrate the vital importance of continued American presence in the region, Petraeus was pleased to confirm that Halliburton had been awarded a no-bid contract to extract a large mineral deposit of lithium worth an estimated $1 trillion which had been recently discovered in Afghanistan.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: white house wimps Source: CTA Labels: Petraeus, Obama, McChrystal, Afhganistan, Kazi. Editor says, The position of Secretary of General Affairs was offered to General Smedley Butler by the business ploters who sought to silently overthrow FDR in the 1930s.
~ So the military are now free to do whatever they want eh? Expect a global nuclear war sometime in the near future... Doctor Strangelove, I presume?
~ I'm guessing Mr. Payne doesn't like Obama much... :D Actually, I do however he has given McChrystal the Tony Hayward treatment, misunderstanding one is a lieing self-serving businessman, the other is a fine soldier who has made an error in being too candid about the truth.
~ Somehow I suspect Congress would have something to say about any president's unilateral creation of an "all-powerful Cabinet position"--and I suspect that what it had to say would contain a lot of words we wouldn't use on this site.
~ Truth is when politicans did run the show we got that prize fool called Jerry Bremer who was straight out of the Avatar movie. Remotely managing the missions in Afghanistan and Iraq with fractured local management teams is also completely unworkable and if I was General McChrystal I would have felt EXACTLY the same way about the situation because its completely untenable. Its no good sending professional soliders (I dont say trained killers) into these countries and then complaining they cant parley with local politicians, that isnt their skill-set and they are unfairly being used as whipping boxes. As soon as McChrystal talked about rolling out "government in a box" in secure areas, Obama / Biden should say - leave that to us bud, you're job is just chasing the terrorists out of the area. Which it is or at least should be. Look at the two faces in this picture of David Petraeus and tell me which one fawning politican / trained killer is the real him? Case closed. The key problem in Afghanistan is the lack of political development, and that absolutely isn't for McChrystal to solve, he's a special ops guy and a fine soldier.
~ The problem isn't what McChrystal thought about his civilian superiors--and make no mistake, they are, legally, his superiors. The problem is that he chose to go loudly public with his contempt, and in Rolling Stone, of all places. Even if he's right, that's not the way to handle things.
The General's choice of venue is revealing. Rolling Stone isn't a news magazine in the usual sense--it's a celebrity tabloid more than anything else. Evidently McChrystal has cme to see himself as a star--a failing MacArthur had to such a degree that he frequently referred to himself in the third person, as if composing his memoirs on the fly.
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