Obama Can’t Fire McCrystal
by Jed BabbinBarack Obama’s problem with top Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McCrystal is one of his own making.
McCrystal and his staff – in a much-ballyhooed article in Rolling Stone set to be published on Friday – are reportedly disdainful and disrespectful to the White House, Afghanistan envoy retired Gen. Karl Eikenberry and Vice President Biden. That they were cannot be an accident. McCrystal (and his boss, Gen. David Petraeus) were uncharacteristically vocal in the months Obama pondered his Afghanistan strategy. They didn’t trust Obama then, and don’t now.
Obama chose McCrystal to command the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan (read “nation-building” for “counterinsurgency”). Both McCrystal and Petraeus (who helped draft the plan) agreed with President Obama’s July 2011 deadline for the campaign.
But it was – and is metaphysically impossible for the plan to work, as Petraeus and McCrystal both knew. A counterinsurgency can succeed, but only with an open-ended commitment to it, and a decisive action to end the involvement of out-of-country allies of the insurgents.
Simply put, basing a strategy on nation-building is the catastrophic mistake that George W. Bush made in Iraq that Obama is now compounding in Afghanistan.
First, you cannot defeat an insurgency without providing both long-term security and offering a form of government more attractive to the populace than the insurgent offers. Neither in Iraq nor in Afghanistan is there such a form of government offered – far less credibly offered – to the population. And in neither place can we offer security for any length of time past the moment the last US trooper climbs into a truck to head to the airport for a flight home.
Second, neither Bush in Iraq or Afghanistan nor Obama in the latter has been willing to even admit that Iran and other nations’ intervention in support of the insurgents in both countries is the deciding factor in the insurgents’ campaigns. So long as the outside support pours in, the insurgents stay on the attack. And so they will in Afghanistan, long past the July 2011 deadline.
So as Stanley McCrystal comes back to Washington this week for a proper scolding by the president, what choice does Obama have?
He can’t fire McCrystal without giving McCrystal’s successor more time to accomplish the mission. If McCrystal is fired this week, how can anyone replace him and be expected to win in the next twelve months?
I predict McCrystal won’t be fired for that reason alone. It’s vastly more important to Obama to maintain the July 2011 withdrawal date than it is to succeed. McCrystal will be scolded, maybe even publicly, by Obama and sent back to do what the general and his military superiors must know is an impossible mission.
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Don't count on Chairman O to take a logical approach to "winning a war", he only cares about winning votes for 2012, the troops be damned.
The imagine in my mind of an empty suit lecturing a General makes my testicles shrivel and my stomach sick.
Now, watch this drive!
I hate it when these people tell the truth and then turn around apologizing what they said. They need to stick to their guns.
They will do to McCrystal what they did to Westmorland, and then they will do to the next guy what they did to Abrams. When politicians run wars, we lose 'em.
General McCrystal disrespected the office of the Presidency and Vice Presidency. In order to restore the honor and integrity of the two highest offices in our country; our brave and courageous leaders should challenge the General to a duel on the White House Lawn. Settle this dispute like men and restore your honor fearless leaders.
Salute the Empty Suit….
Yes he can! And that pinhead ambassador Eikenberry has to go with him!
two generals in charge is a crowd!
http://www.bigbureaucracy.com/?p=1252
That is a great idea!
It had to have taken a huge amount of incompetency by Obama in the eyes of McCrystal to do a negative expose with Rolling Stone. Generals just don't do that unless driven to the edge, and he obviously has lost all respect for Obama and his administration.
I won't be surprised at all to see him fired, and somehow Obama will find a way to blame him if things don't work out in Afghanistan, regardless of McCrystal thinking it was an impossible mission to accomplish with the current plan.
Who says the Dali Bama can't fire McCrystal? He hasn't done anything right yet, why should he start now? Obama seems to do the opposite of what he should be doing.
…in a much-ballyhooed article in Rolling Stone …
My first thought was Rolling Stone? WTF?!
Why not just do an interview for HighTimes ?
I agree, but the whole command there is dysfunctional – a Peace Nobel commander-in chief, a non-fulfilled general for ambassador and McCrystal trying to make something out of it.
We really need to clean up the mess and get our act together in our command in Afghanistan.
The apology was likely a command from the Pentagon, and he would have to do it just to placate. I'm guessing his real feelings are the ones in the article, and he wouldn't have done that interview unless he was beyond caring what the President thinks.
If I were General McCrystal, I'd go in there with a wire. I don't trust this President, and if McCrystal realized that the war was at stake, maybe he'd be willing to tell the truth about the president. Maybe McCrystal could talk about election fixers in Afghanistan and their model of stealing it for Karzai, and offer to set up meetings between the election "fixers" and Obama's staff. That would tip the hand of which side of democracy Obama is on.
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Can you imagine being McCrystal and others who have dedicated their lives to protecting our freedoms, making huge personal sacrifices and having to sit in front of Idiot-in-Chief and listening to anything this moron has to say.
I am quite sure they will bite their tongues instead of telling Obama what they really think. It is a pathetic display of childish and non-leadership behavior we see displayed almost daily by this political hack.
Our thoughts and prayers continue with our military leaders and we only hope they can survive their "tour of duty" under the command of the worst President in our history. Boy did they all draw the short straw.
VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!
of course he can fire McCrystal! then he can blame everything that goes wrong in Afghanistan for the rest of eternity on the general, just like he does with Bush for all domestic issues.
It's absolutely amazing that McCrystal, who voted for Obama, was so struck by Obama's lack of intellect and dishonesty that he would through his career away. When someone is willing to sacrifice so much we should listen. McCrystal is in the know, and he thinks Barry is an idiot. Nuff Said!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Rtd1UbUNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtmTALMkU4
That is a great idea… McCrystal would wipe the floor with them. That would solve a lot of problems.
I agree with McCrystal – however it is a war. People die there .
If he had something to say – say it in Congressional hearing, say it to Obama in his face – don’t spray it in the Rolling Stone! It is embarrassing!
If he had problems to share – be a man and say it to Obama's face, make a statement to the nation and resign.
He can, technically… but is it smart? No. Would he set a firestorm among the thousands of men in uniform who actually have worked under McCrystal's command? We still remember when the left basically called General Petreaus a traitor and will likely say the same thing about McCrystal.
Eikenberry was a commander in Afghanistan when the Taliban regained strength and did little to counter their resurgence, leading to McCrystal taking over. McCrystal is an unorthodox thinker and warfighter, I'd love to see the audiotapes of this meeting with Obama when they come out.
It will be ok he just offer Obama a beer and maybe a round of golf. Mcrystal will unfortunatly be asked to retire or be set up for being relived of his command. The man is a great leader but you cant voice your opinion, no matter the whom is the president is, you have to bite your tounge even if it bleeds. its unfortunat but it underminds the office. One last note why are we talking to rolling stones and why is every one in DC reading it is that were they get all their news from. what happend to the medias love of the US death count?
The one thing that I think can be said with certainty — from my very distant and limited vantage point — is that General McChrystal appears to be very unhappy with the situation he is in at the moment. Can we all agree on that?
He just HAD to know what he was doing in talking to Hastings. I think he has set up this entire situation on purpose. He's trying to change SOMETHING. Just what that is, though, seems to be the $64,000 question.
He can't fire McCrystal until he manages to make it Bush's fault first.
You can fault McCrystal for being duped by dear leader into supporting him and voting for dear leader.
But he has realized the monster he elected and, assured of a retirement check, speaks his mind.
He should continue to do so, as long as he has the capabilities.
McCrystal should write his letter of resignation, go to the meeting with hopey, record everything, hand him the letter, tell him to f**k off, and then hop into a cab over to the Fox studio on Capitol Hill.
"My Pet Scape-Goat"?
Our country’s history has shown that politicians cannot run a war. General McCrystal’s comments, while disrespectful, only brings to light the reality of how inept this administration has proved itself to be. I cannot imagine how hard it is to fight a war with one hand tied behind your back while the other hand is constantly being slapped. And this war is not typical of others before it as our enemy has more drive to succeed in their quest for world domination than our current list of buffoons hog-tying our military, playing nice with the “misunderstood crowd of man-caused disasters”.
General David Petraeus & General Stanley McCrystal:
You have my deepest Thanks and Respect for the commands you accept and the challenges you face. I have no doubt in my mind that you will maintain the integrity so evident of our military command and will do your very best to keep all of our military personnel focused on their respective duties and missions and safe from the bureaucracy that is so prevalent in this current administration. Stand firm in your commitment and don’t let these rookies push you around.
He has said a lot of those things already, and I'm guessing he's said most to Obama already. We wouldn't know what they've said in private, and to assume they haven't talked doesn't really make sense.
He was very vocal for the months asking for new troops, and he was ignored for the most part. I'm sure Obama already knew exactly how he felt, and McCrystal was tired of dealing with people who won't let him do his job, so he decided to tell everyone.
Bingo. He wouldn't make this "mistake" without know exactly what he was doing. It's the type of thing you do when you've exhausted all resources that can be done in private, and he obviously didn't feel like he was getting anywhere.
McCrystal knows he can be fired in fact he WANTs to be fired.
He is telling it like it is because he has nothing to lose and everything to gain like respect among the troops and even relief from the command of a forced failure.
Im sure respect will follow his brazen slap in the face of the commander in Thief!
Give him a medal and thanks for telling the truth about Obama and his idiots. Don't forget "Bite Me"!
You forget the tried and true – blame George Bush – I'm sure that will be injected before it is all said and done.
My exact reaction there 66,…………
I know, it makes me sick to my stomach………..
Now this is the best suggestion yet!
How I wish McCrystal would tell Obama to stick it straight up his @$$. As said earlier, people need to quit apologizing for speaking the truth about this three ring circus posing as an administration.
Maybe he's like everyone else. No one can tell O and his machine anything and get them to listen, let alone, respond. So he did what everyone else with any common sense is doing. He uses an unconventional medium that reaches millions of liberals and that gets the message out quicker and better than the reports from Gibbs and White House ever would.
I would pay money to see that
Both McCrystal and Eikenberry are Obama appointees – I understand that ideal would be to change to commander in chief first, but in the light of the delayed surge in Kandahar – there will be just enough time for a new general and a new ambassador to take over and bring some discipline on the ground.
It is war – not a Rolling Stones concert!
Being fired by the turd that hired all those commie czars would be an honor.
could the general have made these comments on purpose, in order to get fired? look, if he follows orders by the one, he looses the war, if he does not follow the orders, he look yellow. but the third way, he mocks the idiot, gets the can, and exposes obama for the dolt he is. then more focus is put on seeing how obama wants us to loose against muslims. i mean it is possible, i can see no other reason for him to spout off, he had to know dissing the one would mean he lost his job.
Agreed. Rolling Stone would seem to be a strange bedfellow for a member of the military. High Times, LOL!
I think, if Obombus tries the "public scolding" route, McCrystal should publicly resign and blow the lid off things.
We could put it on Pay Per View and all proceeds go straight to paying down the deficit. What do you think?
General McCrystal,…..interviewed by "Rolling Stone",…..?????????
now he is is in "hot water" with the "Commander in Chief" (doesn't even sound right)
there has got to be something more to this story than we are being led to believe.
Isn't it strange how,…….
this Obama presidency has created more diversionary incidents,…………
than private sector jobs.
There are few occasions where high-ranking military leaders will show public disdain to the Office of The United States President. This is one of those occasions, and there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. While I agree with the author of this article that no military commander should never disrespect the President (it sets a bad precedent and is a violation of the UCMJ), someone in the media needs to investigate and report how the U.S. Ambassador in Afgan undermined Gen. McCrystal's strategy, and ran interference with the corrupt Karsia brothers making the General's job even more difficult. Among other reasons, the President tied his hands by the idiotic and dangerous "rules of engagement" policy. This is no way to prosecute a war therefore I can understand the General's frustration. I predict he will resign because no honorable man wants to bear the conscious of having led their men into war that is unwinnable.
I don't recall Petreaus flapping his mouth in the hippies magazine.
The US military has enough personnel to successfully put somebody else in charge. McCrystal should be moved honorably somewhere to Europe where he can chat in some cafe with the Rolling Stone chicks.
McCrystal is dumb as a fox. Sure he knew what he was doing. He fell on the sword for his young men who he saw dying needlessly. It isn't over yet. We, Americans, love and respect our troops. I well remember Viet Nam and the mess politicians made there. McCrystal remembers too. He isn't going to let the same thing happen here even if it means his career. I hope he writes a tell-all book or runs for public office. He may be forced out of the military but I trust he hangs around to fight again, another day.
I know my son, who is over there now in Afghanistan, said that Obama has succeeded in tying their hands because of saying that they would be pulling out in July 2011. Soldiers hate Obama, thinks that he is an absolute idiot. A lying weasel bs'er. A sick joke to them. At the Army base in Germany they were selling Obama Chia Pets, and the soldiers were buying them and sticking pins and making jokes of Obama. Also, when on leave in Amsterdam, they were buying shirts with pictures of Obama morphing into a picture of Osama Bin Laden. Also, I should say, when the Obama administration found out they were selling the Chia Pets on base, they pulled them from the shelves. Soldiers say that Obama is basically un-American and has absolutely no business as commander in chief.
Our troops, fighting men and women would be far more useful here at home. They should be engaged in removing the imposter president and known communist from his office. They are sworn to the constitution not the great black hope.
Bring them home and let them do their job. There is a traitor in the WH!
Winner get the presidency? (winner would HAVE to be McCrystal, as he's the only one who's ever fired a weapon before)
On the contrary, Obama MUST fire the general otherwise the anointed one will be viewed by the country and the world, including the crazy, pig-hearted terrorists, as being even more weak-kneed than already thought to be. The general made a huge mistake by going public with his frustration over how the politicians are running the war. The situation over there is spiraling out of control and I do not think that this is going to end well: not for McChrystal, not for the troops and not for the country. Obama cannot manage the "war" on the oil spill in the Gulf, who believes he can handle a real war?
I feel very badly for McChrystal who knew what the consequences would be for speaking out, but he was willing to make that sacrifice for his troops and his country. GOD BLESS YOU, GENERAL.
A thought just occurred to me — McChrystal has managed to bring Afghanistan back to the front burner, something difficult to do given the ongoing disaster in the Gulf. Perhaps he knew that he had to do something really big, and create another crisis for Obama, in order to shake things up.
Because, really, the war isn't going great, and a lot of the blame for that could be placed at Obama's feet (with his arbitrary troop withdrawal deadline). Maybe this is McChrystal's way of putting enormous pressure on Obama, at a time in which Obama is very, very strained and therefore more vulnerable. Obama felt secure enough to impose the arbitrary deadline, but as his political strength weakens, he will be hard pressed to not make concessions.
I hate to say this, because I really like McCrystal, but he's in a no win situation, and probably looking at a dishonorable discharge. According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice:
"Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. "
Generals never want to be fired. Never, ever, ever. They might take that risk, they might do something that they know will result in being fired, but not because they want to be fired. It's just not in the nature of generals.
so I'd guess McChrystal won't be getting one of those heroic restraint medals.
That's what I'm talkin about!! Out this sonofabitch Obama.
When I heard that McCrystal voted for Obama I first thought – what an idiot? Why would he vote for an illegal alien empty suit? Then I think of the troops on the ground that have to obey orders from a guy that has to have his sanity questioned because of this vote.
I think he already knew that either he was headed out, or he exhausted all options with the WH. Either way, he wouldn't choose this extremely public medium without cause, and it would have to be pretty dire to get to that point.
I'm not saying he did the right thing, but you're assuming he did this for the heck of it without knowing any of the details of what went on behind the scenes. If he's been ignored by Obama for months, which has already been shown to be the case earlier in the war, a highly read left leaning magazine interview will force the issue, and he wouldn't have done it without knowing the consequences.
Obama has not respected the office of the President at all. You cannot be surprised when his inferiors finally get fed up with him and his Administration.
At this point, with the new and crucial offensive in Afganistan just starting following the troop build up since last fall, I don't believe there is any way that Obama can let McChrystal go. Who could possibly step in without causing further delays? I do have trouble understanding why the general would have anything to do with Rolling Stone magazine, however. The drug addled folks there are still wholly enmeshed in viewing the middle east conflicts as refighting the VietNam war, and are undoubtedly taking copious amounts of intoxicants a la their patron saint Hunter S. Thompson. Those folks would be doing an article on the military for only one reason- to play "gotcha"- and every unguarded comment, such as the allegation that an aide referred to Biden as "bite me", would be trumpeted as an earthshaking pronouncement as the uber-liberal playbook requires. McChrystal was very naive to think otherwise and should never have let such extreme leftwing ideological extremeists within a mile of himself. They are engaged in their own holy war of "disrupting" our military as usual.
There is as much chance that Obama will swim down to the leaking well and personally plug the hole as he will dishonorably discharge Maj.Gen. McChrystal.
You can bet the farm that the General has his resignation in his pocket. I don't know about recorders but I'd wager he'll do a post meeting presser. I think the General just fell on his sword, only time will tell us why.
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Of course he can, and he will. One, because Obama is famously thin-skinned; his ego is his glass jaw and he can't stand criticism from anyone, ever.
Two, because Obama wants to lose the war in Afghanistan. McChrystal was put in charge of a bogus "surge" (replacing the less pliant Gen. McKiernan) which was calculated to fail from the outset: a half-assed effort designed for PR (and getting good men killed through obscene ROE) so that Obama can pull out, declaring the war "unwinnable" and, of course, Bush's fault.
What was the young Obama doing on that mysterious journey to Pakistan with his jihadist "roommates"? Inquiring minds want to know.
I agree. Let us not lose sight of what Generals do for a living. I think it's called strategy!
Well now get a look at his pathetic self in this photo, sitting there acting like he's all that. In front of McCrystal. I bet oblahma thinks he's some BODY! What a ……..never mind I won't say it!
Then shame on the PENTAGON. Clowns who have been doing a great impersonation of a HOLE IN THE WIND would do well to remember WE remember Viet Nam and WE KNOW THIS MUSIC.
Given the total ABSENCE of decent presidential material, let alone strong leadership….hell, you can't take two steps in any direction without tripping over some politician APOLOGIZING….McCrystal or Petraeus could run a helluva race without one TV ad. This country is so desperate for leadership….either one could win against BOTH party's candidates…at least the ones they're trotting out for us now.
I see nobody in either party with the balls or strength of character to end these wars and leave, now. Oh hell no. THAT will not happen. Instead we will have to endure months of Kabuki Theater full of angst and chin tugging and hand wringing to try and make us believe the decision is agonizing and president whozits is trying to "do the right thing." Horseshit. This is Viet Nam lite. Only difference is location and the merciful absence of a draft!.
So much for gov't by scholars. Someone please mail them a frikkin 10th grade history book. So far the lessons of "nation building" wars have escaped their eagle eyes and razor wits! Fools!
God just spare us the mellerdrammer, declare victory, hug Karzi and whoever isn't DEAD in Iraqi gov't and LEAVE! Horse meet water. See ya.
oh Wow…..
I think Stomp needs a wittle hug, lololol!
I agree that McCrystal had to be aware of the consequences of these comments and it perhaps looking to bring the matter to a head (i.e. force Obama to deal with him/fire him). And I think that Obama will, because he is a self-aggrandizing, petulant child who cannot endure any tarnishment or attack on his ego or well-crafted public persona.
It looks like Barry has found an A$$ to kick!
Can you imagine taking an oath to uphold the Constitution, and then find
out you're working for a president that is trying to destroy that same
Constitution!
Keep in mind this IS Rolling Stone, the Michael Moore of journalism. I wouldn't be surprised if the controversial statements were made "off the record" with the writer's solemn promise not to print them, nossiree bob.
You da man Stomp!!!!
Afghanistan will be Obama's Vietnam, He is micro managing this war, just like he is micro managing everything else for he own self interest. He is a college lecturer with know real world experience who surrounds himself with like minded people. Just look his disastrous handling of the Oil spill. Everything with this man is looked at from the angle of what makes him look good. And he ends up looking like an incompetent fool.
McCrystal voted for Barry, I wonder how he feels about that vote now!
How bout we put our money where our mouths are on this one and one more time POUND the phones to urge our reps and senators to STAND WITH MCCRYSTAL. They of course won't do it, but they will have one more can o worms to deal with on election day if they DON'T.
Just a thought!
I'm hoping that the General, sick of seeing his troops die from the idiotic rules of engagement, has chosen this method of forcing the issue as having the most potential for a big stage and a two sided argument. A quiet resignation is just that, quiet. The administration has complete control of the story. This is more in line with a MacArthur moment.
I don't think the president has a choice, he has to fire him and accept his resignation. Then we get hear what private citizen McCrystal has to say about it. Who knows? I thought he was Zero's picked guy, it must worst than we thought.
If Obama fires McCrystal, it will look like Obama is more concerned with his ego than winning the war. Which of course, he is, but he doesn't want it to appear that way. It's all about Obama's ego, no matter how you cut it.
Rolling Stone is a left wing rag and maybe thats why he decided to do the interview or maybe he knows someone there personally. Whatever, I hope Rolling Stone won't spin it toooooo much.
The only thing Odumo cares about is his ego. A real sick mf'er.
Thanks for that and tell your son we greatly appreciate his service. As to Obama, the hearing impared and blind could see through his shckt.
" Strawberries, Where are my strawberries?
This just shows that the Pentagon thinks Obama is an ass and I bet the Pentagon is backing McCrystal albeit quietly. Do you see how this is playing out?
McCrystol, Senator Kyle, Jan Brewer, Nebraska illegal stuff and now Hedspeth, Texas is asking for all militia to volunteer and help at the border. Lets not forget Rahm the ballerina and his love affair with Blago and the oil spill.
Obama is being beseiged and there will be more to come, I assure you. Payback is a bitch.
Sources tell me that Obumus is sending it to him via predator drone.
[...] it was just a matter of time before the general stuck his foot in his mouth. Jed Babbin argues that Obama cannot fire McChrystal. Meanwhile, Politico reports that McChrystal reviewed the Rolling Stone article and [...]
" Now, let's be clear. I am the boss of you. You have to do what I say. Uh, Ummm, uh, and uh, let's be clear on this too, uhhmmmm, uh, Hey Rahm, I am the Commander in Chief right? Oh, yeah and I talk you listen." Haaaaaaaa! Just go hit the links dad.
VietNam redax! Put a Democrat adminastration in charge of fighting a war, this is what you get. The reality of this war is yet to be felt. When he breaks yet another campaign promise by not leaving Afghanistan in July 2007 he will resort to the same action that LBJ followed. We will see an esculation of the war. This will not end well.
Exactly,
And remember the MODERN ARMY has a new policy of making our commanders travel around country with a gaggle of reporters who wouldn't know a salute from a salami but then they come home and "report" the war …like ANYONE at Rollin Stone has ever BEEN in one.
They probably did an editing job on his comments worthy of AP with the full INTENTION of screwing over one of the finest commanders and fighting soldiers in the United States Army. And I would purely LOVE IT IF HE WORE A WIRE!
Meanwhile Rollin Stone will most likely get what they wanted all along today……but our soldiers will pay the price in blood so Rolling Stone can bump their image with the left and their sagging revenues!
Like I said….welcome to Viet Nam lite!
And his paycheck!
Stanley McCrystal should treat this incident as the opportunity to bail out of this campaign, which has absolutely no chance of success. In excess of 200,000 of the people that he would need to act as reliable partners, no longer live in Afghanistan, but have fled the country to seek refuge in the EU and the US. The police and Afghan army (ANA) are riven by dope-fiends and mercenaries. The Afghan government is utterly corrupt and incompetent. And the Taleban are not an insurgency, they are an ideologically committed and utterly ruthless menace that the US simply refuses to defeat.
Isn't this the same McChrystal who couldn't get more than a 5 minute meeting with Obama after he travelled half the way around the world? As thin skinned as Obama is…. I think McChrystal has his attention now.
or not at all, but creatively edited in a way worthy of the AP….hell, maybe they're interviewing for a job there since RS is in a death spiral playin to its pitiful audience of babie Barbie and Ken dolls doin pop and the liberal left that is all but neutered having capitulated THEIR PRINCIPLES for Obama's FAILED IDEOLOGY.
McCrystal is a saint. He must be to sit across from a shell of a real man and not reach over to bitch slap the poser.
Thanks, and you're right, it's always and only about their egos. You'd have to be a complete idiot not to see through it. It's like we have a junior high school gang running the white house.
— On Tue, 6/22/10, IntenseDebate Notifications <notifications@intensedebatemail.com> wrote:
Obama will force him to resign, just like he forced BP to put up $20 billion dollars. Obama will say it was totally McCrystals decision. And maybe McCrystal wants to get out of a war where his hands are tied and its a no win situation. It must be hard to serve under someone like Obama, who doesn't know what the hell he is doing.
nah, his ego trumps everything.
— On Tue, 6/22/10, IntenseDebate Notifications <notifications@intensedebatemail.com> wrote:
Exactly. He was set-up to take the fall from the beginning. There is no way anyone can convince me that the puppet masters did not have their hands in this because it is clear the war strategy is flawed, and designed to fail from the start. McCrystal is their fall guy. They love opportunites like this to misdirect our attention from the Gulf and all the other garbage that is going on in Congress, etc.
Yeh well McCrystal TOLD Obama he was NOT going to bite his tongue and if he didn't want a general like that, don't hire one.
This is pure grandstanding for Obama to divert attention from those pesky problems his magic socialism bullet didn't solve. Kick the Gen in the morning, get in a quick round of golf, then dis BP for a sound byte for the evening news, stuff Holder on a plane to go sue Arizona, and be home in time for "date nite."
It's good to be king.
Yeah, but there's nopersonal upside for Obama if McCrystal leaves.
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I guess this means he won't be getting that new-fangled and "highly coveted" Medal of Restraint the One has been suggesting!
blame George Bush – I'm sure that will be injected
As it is with all other failures that The One is involved in.
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