namvet
09-22-2009, 08:36 PM
Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal's team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if he isn't given sufficient resources (read "troops") to implement a change of direction in Afghanistan
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This may be precisely what Obama wants and has set up ... With a McChrystal resignation (justifiable), Obama will bring into question the loyalty and dependability of his senior military leaders, and that of the Force as a whole. It will provide cover for him to build his Brown Shirts ... his dependable and loyal forces ... more rapidly.
He does not, and has not ever, given two shits about A'stan. That was Bush's war. His pro-Muslim / anti-American world view would never let him pursue a true victory in A'stan, and he's said as much
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This may be precisely what Obama wants and has set up ... With a McChrystal resignation (justifiable), Obama will bring into question the loyalty and dependability of his senior military leaders, and that of the Force as a whole. It will provide cover for him to build his Brown Shirts ... his dependable and loyal forces ... more rapidly.
He does not, and has not ever, given two shits about A'stan. That was Bush's war. His pro-Muslim / anti-American world view would never let him pursue a true victory in A'stan, and he's said as much