“I live close to Ft Hood in Killeen, Tx and surprised how many of the Army enlisted and officers are Obama supporters.”
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So, I suppose they fully understand that they have sworn to defend and protect a Communist regime.
Most just want to end the fighting and come home. It’s always sad to visit the schools here and most have a long hallway covered with parents deployed and very often the kids have to face another soldier killed. I’m with you and don’t supposrt Obama but I havent been fighting such a long war and the families are falling apart with so many deployments.
His first responsibility is to the troops under his command in the field. Those people calling for a full throated denunciation of the President by McC are not thinking clearly. That would be deeply unfair to the men he was commanding only yesterday. As a General he must put his responsibility first.
His resignation is curt and I think it communicates his true feelings, in an appropriatly veiled way. He supports “the President’s strategy in Afghanistan” but not the President, notably.
I think it’s just right. And as he moves further away from the conflict I’m sure we’ll hear more about his feelings on things.
I’m looking forward to read the article in Rolling Stone.
(Hey Rolling Stone is suddenly relevant again. The Taibi articles on Goldman and the financial crisis were among the best, now this news-making event. Weird. I’m pretty sure part of the turn around is Jann Wiener finally getting his hands off the controls.)