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  • Fire the Admirals to Encourage the Others

    11/24/2019 10:06:10 PM PST · by bitt · 44 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 11/25/2019 | KURT SCHLICHTER
    Mark this day on your calendar because here is the moment that I admit that Barack Obama did something right. He fired Army General Stanley McChrystal. Now, I would have fired him well before for failing to win the Afghanistan War. In World War II, which America incidentally won, we fired lots of generals and admirals for failing to win. It was nothing personal. You aren’t winning, so “Next!” Obama did (gently) fire McChrystal’s predecessor for failing to win; he was a good officer who, by coincidence, was literally onstage talking to my Army War College class the moment Obama’s...