“”it is better for military advice to come up through the chain of command”
What better military advice could a commander in Chief get than that from his boots on the ground general?
You’re right.
I’ve like Jones in the past, but this smells like a sellout to me. Either that or he is jealous somehow.
Gen. McChrystal does have a responsibility to those who are serving. Who put their lives in harms way for him and for the President.
I realize the President see nor fells none of this.
Unless the advice it keeps getting detoured to the the dumpster, then the correct thing to do is to notify the "chain" that they are about to be bypassed......give them a few days to think about it, then pull the trigger and DO the bypass.