Because I know nothing about wars, I have a few questions.
1. If a general can resign, can all his troops do the same?
2. Since Prez picked McChrystal is this all a ploy to act
like the Prez doesn’t really want to send more troops, but
in reality he does?
3. I thought Afghanistan was “unwinable” so why send more
troops to be killed or left stranded over there.
4. In the old days, when people were working and spending
and life was good - people would be screaming about this
fight, so is that why all this crisis has been created to
distract us from what he really wants to do (to send all
our boys over there to die) leaving us unprotected with
a collapsing country?
I don’t have military experience, either, but a general would have enough years in service that he could tender his resignation at any time. The other officers’ ability to tender resignations would be dependent on the time remaining on their contracts with the Army. Usually, when they are offered promotions above a certain level, they sign up for another x years. Enlisted are also contracted with the Army for a certain period of time that they have to fulfill.
Obama is reminding me of LBJ, who was more interested in his domestic agenda than the war he was sending others to fight. He doesn’t want another VN, but his base is so anti-war and anti-military, that the recommendations of Genl McChrystal put him in a politically lose-lose position.
Obama will probably try to ‘split the baby’ by sending less than the general wants, but more than Biden wants, making no one happy. Assuming Genl McChrystal’s is the right position, half measures would set the US up to lose.