Can't say that I blame him though.
word is that Obama is going to replace the General with a lawyer
It will have to be a lawyer who studied sharia law, that's the court we are dealing with.
my guess is that he feels it's the only way.
Short of asking Zero to produce his credentials.
A question; what did you think of the Afghan commander that preceded McChrystal?
Why do you think he was replaced?
I don't recall much reason ever given.
the fact is that obama isn't respected by our military generals. they know this guy is weak. he uses the office to demand respect but he hasn't earned any of it. if they fire the guy, i hope he goes all over the media circuit and tells how bad of a leader obama is.
also the general isn't perfect, he does have some bad judgement.
he voted for hussein
Doesn't say much for McLame does it??
Thank you for your service to our country! :salute:
Same here, and to your son also J-P. :salute:
you must realize the irony of this rant of yours. . .
That's life behind the irony curtain, he never ever sees the irony.
"There is no room for public dissent"
I laughed hard Lg. Keep blowing smoke and telling me its cloudy.
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Leftists are adamant that no one should dare criticize dear leader. Mere mortals must not dare to question that which is divine.
The only thing that Obama supporters hate about this is that they can't say anything back. The General told the truth.
I don't think we come out that much ahead when the dust all settles there.
The critical issue is Washington's objective. The U.S. long ago achieved its goal of displacing and weakening al-Qaeda (despite the failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden) and ousting the Taliban government which gave the organization refuge.
Here are some more takes on what is going on in Afghanistan:
Matthew Hoh, a former Marine Corps officer who recently resigned from the State Department, explained: "Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people."
Then there is the recent flagrant election fraud, which, wrote Hoh, "will call into question worldwide our government's military, economic and diplomatic support for an invalid and illegitimate Afghan government."
Ralph Peters, a columnist who backed the Iraq war, criticized protecting "an Afghan government the people despise."
Malalai Joya, vilified by fundamentalists for daring to run for parliament and promote women's rights, complained: "Your governments have replaced the fundamentalist rule of the Taliban with another fundamentalist regime of warlords."
Boston University's Andrew Bacevich explained: "No serious person thinks that Afghanistan--remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nation-state--seriously matters to the United States."
Hoh observed that no "military force has ever been tasked with such a complex, opaque and Sisyphean mission as the U.S. military has received in Afghanistan."
Author Victor Sebestyen reviewed the minutes of meetings between Politburo and military officials and reported: "The Soviets saw withdrawal as potentially fatal to their prestige in the cold war, so they became mired deeper and deeper in their failed occupation."
At its maximum Russia had 118,000 troops in Afghanistan, which proved to be too few.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming) claimed: "the lack of decisiveness about how to best proceed is emboldening our enemies and endangering our troops and friends."
Everyone uses the old adage that Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires," but outside powers never have had much success in imposing their will on the Afghan people.