Posted on 08/05/2014 11:44:42 AM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: Now, there's a very upsetting story out of the Afghanistan war today. Headline: "United States Army Major General Killed by an Afghan Soldier -- A United States Army major general was shot and killed at close range on Tuesday by a man dressed as an Afghan soldier at a training academy on the outskirts of Kabul..." By the way, you might hear it pronounced "Kah-BOOL," but it isn't. It's "KAH-bull," K-a-b-u-l.
"The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war. The coalition official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and would not release the name of the major general, said an unspecified number of other service members of the American-led coalition and Afghan soldiers, including a senior Afghan commander were also shot."
Now, do you remember Fort Hood, the massacre at Fort Hood, where a member the Army stood up and shouted, "Allahu Akbar," and just let loose and killed and wounded a number of people? Do you remember what that was called? It was called "workplace violence." It was "workplace violence." It was anything but what it was. They never were gonna call it "terrorism." No way.
It could not have been the result of militant Islamists infiltrating the US Army. "Hell, no! That couldn't happen. Our security is too tight; that could never have happened. It's somebody that just cracked, just like in your office. It's just 'workplace violence.'" Well, I don't know what President Obama is going to say, if anything, about this major general killed in Afghanistan.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the way he describes it is, quote, "An Army general was a victim of workplace violence today. It seems there was a little trouble with some of the folks over in Afghanistan. I'll have more about this after I save the country from the Tea Party Republicans." (interruption) No, I doubt that he would say it. I wouldn't be surprised, is the point. (interruption) One thing is an act of war and another one's not?
Workplace violence! See, even workplace violence is political. This is the thing. All these people -- average, ordinary Americans, some of them low-information -- talking about how much they hate politics, have no idea how everything they care about or are interested in, has been politicized. They don't see it. As such, they don't see the Democrats as political.
The Democrats are the ones that politicize all these things. The Democrats. Google, Facebook, Twitter. Who are these people? They're all liberal Democrats! They all donate, they all promote, they all vote liberal Democrat. Everything they do is political. But since these people don't see "politics" in all that is political, and they know these people are all Democrats, why, then it's not political -- and why do they hate politics?
Well, you reduce it down to they hate politics because of the Republicans. "The Republicans are the ones that make everything political," and the poor old sap Republicans, they're just sitting around. They get up in fear every day wondering what the hell is gonna be thrown at 'em that day. The Republicans haven't been on the aggressive warpath in I don't know how long.
The Republicans aren't doing diddly-squat, except sitting there getting blamed for everything and being told how they're haters and they're racists and they're bigots. And the guys that are making everything political escape any association with politics, which these low-information people claim to hate. So therefore who's political? Republicans are! This is how it all works.
This is why my quest to get everybody possible, as many as possible, to see the politics in everything. Right now when you're a person that sees "politics" in everything, you're an extremist to people that don't get it. "That's crazy. You're just crazy. You're tinfoil hats. You find a conspiracy theory behind every simple little occurrence."
No, no, no, no. I just understand the left. I just understand them front to back, top to bottom, sideways to sideways. I understand them. I know how they do it. I know what they're gonna say before they say it, how they're gonna react before they react, because I understand their politics.
It is shocking that the terrorists got a two star general. What is not shocking is the ho hum attitude taken by the regime and the press.
Judging by the support the Islamo-Nazis get from the Regime, the Regime probably set it up. I guess next they will blame it on a Youtube video.
Great headline.
Rush is a genius.
name of General ?????
His name will be released after his next of kin are notified.
Anybody know when was the last time a Commander in Chief of the US military allowed a general to be killed by the enemy on the battleground during hostilities?
Am assuming it was a long time ago, and speaks volumes on what type of Commander the POTUS is.
That headline. Wow. Hilarious.
What a sad event.
Hadn't you heard that the Pentagon was 'Pink-Slipping' Majors, obviously this was a transcription error in that this was a Major-GENERAL.
Turning off my snark, this is a sad end to a likely 20+ year career and there is almost certainly a family in grief. Of course this applies to ALL our military dead, it is just more eye-opening for that rarified rank to pay that very final price! R.I.P. and respects!
Keith Lincoln Ware (November 23, 1915 – September 13, 1968) was a United States Army officer who was killed in the Vietnam War.
Ware had received the Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II, and was killed in action while commanding a U.S. Army infantry division during the Vietnam War.
While a service Chief of Staff or a commander of a major command shouldn’t necessarily be at the front; I see nothing wrong with even a two star being out there. Although this was not the case, I have more respect for a general who is a real leader who leads from the front like Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. who won the MoH for his actions directly rallying and leading troops against the German positions and opening up that section of the front while under heavy fire. Those like him are real combat leaders of men.
This wasn’t at “the front” as in an FOB. It was at the British run military school.
This was a parade ground massacre.
I know that but the point is that general officers should be at the front and not just “resource managers” in the rear. That includes not only site visits like this, but also trips to FOBs. Those who attempt to manage or lead complex operations they haven’t seen or don’t fully understand tend to make bad decisions that affect those at the point of the spear. This is a risk that those in a leadership position have a responsibility to take.
Major General Harold Greene has been identified by the Pentagon as the slain General. Leaves a family that includes a son who is also serving.
least seven major generals died in battle during U.S. military operations in Vietnam between 1967 and 1970. Among them were George William Casey Sr., whose helicopter hit a mountain in South Vietnam on July 7, 1970, and John A. B. Dillard, who died May 12, 1970, when his helicopter was shot down.
that the most recent senior U.S. Army officer killed by foreign action was Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude. Maude died on Sept. 11, 2001, during the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Thank you for the bio
He was murdered, or, if you prefer, assassinated..
“This wasn’t at “the front” as in an FOB. It was at the British run military school.
This was a parade ground massacre.”
When your supposed allies will literally shoot you in the back, it’s all “the front.”
He was a servant of the Usurper. A traitor to his sworn oath.
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