Would you rather have General Jones providing National Security advice and council to Obama or Bill Ayers?
Simple: To serve his country. To a true patriot, Country comes first.
Probably because he loves his country and wants to see the best for it. Look at General McCaffery. I think he’s an honorable man and yet he served in the Clinton white house. For many in the military, service is not a means to acquiring power and changing the country. Service is actually serving one’s country.
For me, the fact that he is associated with obama and his ilk is enough.
For the good of the country. Would you have preferred an Ivy league academic?
Maybe Jones is a true patriot who sees himself and the advice he can give as a bulwark between a naive weak President and his ignorant, manipulative self serving and communistic cohorts and advisors
Jones did not look happy yesterday to be up on stage with that crowd of pathological losers posturing as leaders
Stars flow from the office of the President of the United States. For anyone that believes that there are no politics in the ranks of Generals, I would advise you to look at the past and re-evaluate your thinking. McCaffery worked for Clinton because he is a democrat. Remember Wes Clark? Those folks were made and promoted by democrats. Some slip through although most support one party. Also think of the ones that got in trouble, most notable were MacArthur and Singlaub. They criticized sitting presidents and were removed from their commands, kind of like Wes Clark and NATO, heh..heh.
General Jones is an outstanding Marine who has apparently served our nation well. It’s a good sign that his is the NSA as this may be the good news that the reality of the intel briefing to Obama caused more than the headache and queasiness we saw after.
That must have been one helleva reality check. As such, the RX is clear and General Jones is the answer.
We should relish this as perhaps the best bit of news we could hope for frankly.
Oswald is one name that quickly comes to mind.
Murtha is another.
So,IMO,if General Jones proves himself in the coming months to be in the same league as Murtha then we shouldn't be *completely* surprised.
Maybe a better question is why would Obama choose Jones.
I would like to know Gen. Jones’ stances on at least these four issues:
1. Will he be for or against Obama’s plan to attempt to secure defeat in Iraq by a premature withdrawal?
2. How is he on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” matter? Will he rightly advise Obama that allowing open homosexuality in our Armed Forces is detrimental to unit cohesion and good order and discipline, or will he look the other way?
3. What about U.S. Forces under U.N. command? That question was NEVER posed to Obama, but Clinton experimented with it in Somalia to disastrous results.
4. How about the subjecting of U.S. troops to the International Court of Justice? Bush has stood strongly against it? Again, a question never posed to Obama, so where does Jones stand?
Until those and other questions are answered, I’ll withhold judgement.
An interesting theory going around is that Obama wants to spend all his time on socializing America from within. He does not want to get caught up in foreign affairs so he simply will let the experts deal with it.
I met him once. He sees himself as something of a proconsul cum warrior-diplomat. He likes people to know he speaks fluent French. Jones looks like a Marine out of central casting. He has an ego and likes to play the contrarian. For me, the jury is still out. I hope he puts country first above his own personal ambitions.
I would prefer James EARL Jones. He has a much better voice.
I believe Obama picked Gen. Jones because the only other former Marine he (Obama) personally knew was Rev Jeremiah Wright!
Gen Jones DID appear at campaign stops with Sen McCain during the last year.
Honestly, I believe Jones is a good man, a good Marine and the European part of Jones past is “international” enough to beguile Obama. Since he played for Georgetown (he’s 6ft 4in), it could be Obama wants a partner to play 2 on 2 at the new White House basketball court.
I remember serving under Gen Cushman as Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was Deputy Director of the CIA also.
The simple answer, General Jones is no Smedley Butler
I’m not an expert, but I will say i was surprised to hear that Jones was even on the list for consideration. I expected him to pick some Peter principle blowhard like Wes Clark or Merrill McPeak.