Posted on 07/01/2010 6:54:18 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Here's a brief video from General Petraeus' confirmation hearing this week.
In it, Sen. McCain draws him out on this disturbing fact: military never consulted on Obama's misguided and publicly-stated withdrawal deadline for US forces in Afghanistan... in effect a long, drawn-out surrender...
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I’m certainly not a military expert, but it seems to me that we either go in to win, or we don’t bother. I’m really not willing to spend our soldier’s lives if we are just playing politics. I consider every one of those soldiers like I would my own child and I would not waste one life just so a politician could make political points. I believe Bush felt each loss personally. I don’t think Obama gives a rats patootie, because it’s all about him.
Obama will fire him, too??????
Why should they be. Civilians make decisions about goals, the military carries them out.
Obama doesn’t “consult” with anyone...he tells us what’s coming our way...whether we like it or not.
It’s pretty clear to me that General McChrystal’s actions were intentional. He’s not an idiot (political votes aside) and the article was going to be the obvious result of the ‘30-day inbed’ by Hastings. With this candid statement by General Petraeus, could it be that McChrystal and Petraeus have ingeniously played the poseur and have now taken control of our Afghan war? At this point, Petraeus cannot be fired.
This should in itself be an impeachable offense.
How can one who took the oath to protect the people of America possibly do this without the military input?
“Why should they be. Civilians make decisions about goals, the military carries them out.”
Clearly, this is incompetence at the highest extreme if decisions are made without consequences, which the military is there to provide.
Obama will fire him, too??????
Nope, Pretraeus owns Mr. Skittles. Hillary does not want to have to run against him in 2012.
How successful were the civilians decisions in the Vietnam war, hmmmm???
Awful. What’s your point?
Let me refine that response. Civilians should set the goals and get out of the way and let the military do their job. That is NOT what happened in Vietnam. The Civilians micromanaged the war. Disaster.
Sorry, and another thing. In Afghanistan the civilians have not given clear achievable goals to the military. That also is a prescription for disaster.
Obviously I am thinking this through on the fly. The military of course needs to be consulted during the goal setting process as to what is achievable by military means. And the military needs to give good honest advice in return. I’m not sure that always happens with many of these “political” generals.
Thank you for the candid response, because that was just exactly my point as well!!!
I like your post #12 better!!!
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