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Originally Posted by krashkart
Yeah, sums it up pretty well indeed. That little snippet from the article joggled me a bit: pretty good evidence that politicians have no business conducting warfare... as if the conflict in SEA wasn't proof enough already.  |
It should be law that any presidential nominee has to have served in the US military as an officer to be considered for the presidency. I'm sick of all these bleeding heart hippies running the show.
It was never McChrystal's strategy in Afghanistan. It was Obama's. Obama seriously limited McChrystal from being able to have an effective strategy. Any military officer will agree that McChrystal had a solid plan for Afganistan but Obama was only giving him half the tools needed to be successful. Obama set the man up for failure and then relieved him when he got frustrated and told the press the truth about why he was having difficulty doing his job.
He told Obama what he needed to do the job and Obama turned him down by only giving him half of what he needed. So what was he supposed to do? Suck it up? We're talking life and death situations here. No General wants to see his men get killed off. I think he just couldn't stomach it anymore and got fed up with Obama.
In a way it serves him right. He supposedly voted for Obama and look where that got him. You reap what you sew!