Posted on 09/11/2014 8:04:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
if anyone can do it , a Marine can pull it off
I’d rather see Jim Conway co-opted , but Allen will do
Could it be possible to be a high-up Marine and not be a “political”? Methinks this is Kabuki at its finest.
Our tax dollars at work.
He's not a Gen Mattis, but then again, most generals can't be Mattis. Damn shame. Mattis should be the mold for Marine generals. The Marine version of Patton.
The last remarkable General before Mattis was Peter Pace. Conway was no slouch either.
Correct.
I met Jim Conway once , when he was the Com .
I was /am VERY impressed .
Wish he’d get back into it a bit
Could it be possible to be a high-up Marine and not be a “political”? Methinks this is Kabuki at its finest.
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No one rises to a 4-star level, since the end of WWII, without playing the political game. This guy has been working for John F’ng Kerry, so we know his style of politics.
Just a couple of days ago I was reading that there were maybe six or seven mid-east Arab countries that MIGHT aid the US in the war on ISIS. ...How did the coalition country count suddenly grow to FORTY? I’m not buying that BS.
Well, this tells ma a TON about John Allen!! He must be a huge lefty.....sad.
Probably why they chose a retiree instead of an active duty guy...
Has this ever been done before? I don’t understand why they want someone outside the normal chain of commands to oversee something linking directly to OdumBO.
And if he isn't, my apologies, but I am really fed up with the liberals.
I cannot believe Allen is doing this. From what I understand from my nephew who served under him in ‘stan back in (IIRC)’08, he was a soldiers soldier.
Does not sound like a person to go to bat for this group of misfits.........and traitors..
If you go back to 2007/08, Gen Allens job in Iraq was to try to shift the Sunni to supporting the central Iraq govt and he was successful. That is why Obama gave him the job in Afghanistan to shift the Taliban.
And this is why Obama gave him this job in Iraq. The main job in Iraq will be to convince the Sunni to abandon their support for ISIS.
As for the rules of engagement, those are found in Counterinsurgency Manual used by both the Army and Marines. Gen Petraeus had the manual rewritten and he hired Col John Nagl to rewrite it. Nagl was the Rhodes Scholar of Counterinsurgency. Petraeus wrote his college thesis on counterinsurgency. Nobody had used the old manual since VietNam.
See #33
If he’s going to be in charge, he should be recalled to active duty and given command of this mess. This appears to be running the war out of the State Department via an advisor.
That is precisely what it is, since we aren’t at war according to our esteemed strategerist, Jon Kerry.
Commissioned officers(including retired) serve at the pleasure of the prez. Even after he was forced to retire, Obama kept him on as the top general in Afghanistan. He got that job when Petraeus moved up to CIA, and held it until the COIN mission ended in Afghanistan
Since when did morality or lack thereof play into Obama’s decisions on anything? He’s deliberately sidestepping what is clearly a DoD function to save face from being a wartime _Resident.
Instead of being just another bitching, moaning, and whining rightwinger who wants to nukem, you ought to try to make the case for a different general who you think is better qualified.
we need General Mattis for the troop morale...
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