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Done, … and good riddance.

There’s nothing less excusable nor more derelict than a commanding US general betraying executive authority. This general has betrayed his oath of duty to the service of our country.

If he had objections to his orders on standing policy or personnel, he could voice them through channels or otherwise do the right and honourable and resign.

Obama has exercised the only correct option in accepting his resignation. Like him, loathe him, he is President of the United States of America. A very troubled country not of his exclusive making.

Things could get pretty interesting around 2:15 ET…

Out on a lonely country road, a salesman’s car breaks down next to small farm. The fellow gets out, opens the hood, and is looking at the engine when he hears a voice say. “It’s the injection system”.
The salesman bangs his head on the hood as he jumps and looks around. There is only an old horse standing on the other side of a fence that runs along the road. He goes back to trying to figure out the problem with his car. After a bit he hears the same voice say again “it’s the injection system”.
The reaction is the same, and still there is nobody around save, the old horse. Quite shaken now, the fellow decides to keep an eye on the horse while he is still trying to figure out his car’s problem. Sure enough, after a while, the horse says “it’s the injection system”.
This freaks the guy out and he runs down the road to a farmhouse and madly bangs on the door until an old lady answers. She says “what’s all the commotion”, while looking at a very frightened young man.
“D d d did you know that the horse down the road could talk”, he said.
“No kidding?” she says, “what did he say?”
“When my car broke down, he said it was the injection system”.
“Oh well, there ya go”, says the old lady, “don’t listen to anything that old nag says, he don’t know crap about cars”.

Just thought you guys might need a different perspective. Bye W

After reading the Great writing put forth by Rick, and reading the above comments, and making a few myself. I called the congressional delegation for this district:

From Congress this morning- “It is inappropriate – regardless if it is truth.”

KILL THE MESSENGER

Highwater, you are right about Obama the puppet.
It is clear that he is in over his head, and has most likely told the power brokers he is not interested in another term. Hence his concert going, golf playing, etc., too much stress, and the BP Gulf spill was the last straw.
He is not Douglas MacArthur by a long shot.

A Lee, resignation or firing is indeed an out for McChrystal from a hopeless task.
Once he retires, he can make the talk show rounds to promote his book, and say I told you so when we get kicked out of Afghanistan. He may even run for Congress.

I thought Obama wanted transparency.

Obama picked Biden. You are gonna catch some flak just standing next to smilin’ “big f-n’ deal” Joe. He’s your guy. I have often wondered what pics does Joe have?

It all seems so FUBAR. The economic policy of fattening up Wall Street alone, skewering all others is FUBAR. We have 7 million homes wanting to be sold, not even listed, and we are encouraging builders to build more…MMS? Our energy policy? Obama turning his back on Israel?

Oh, and talk about a great plan – pass the healthcare feed trough, solving none of the expense issues, and worry about the 20 million illegal Mexicans squatting here later. You might want to count how many are in the bar before yelling, “Drinks on me!” It just makes no sense. None of it. It just reeks of a guy who came into office thinking that “all you need is love”, America is boundlessly rich, add some good intentions, and it will all be so much better – with no worthwhile experience or understanding. At some point, it will be so hard, he is going to give up – I hope. And then, change.

When he made that statement that “maximizing tax receipts is not paramount, fairness is” I knew we were doomed. That is just plain stupid. Like John Edwards suggesting we should tax unrealized capital gains (he did, and 20% of the population wanted him).
The one thing that I found very attractive about this mess is that it indicates to me that there is a healthy dose of disgust and contempt that the military has for its government. This will be reassuring when TSHTF and our local law enforcement is the Nat Guard. Together, we can talk smack about the POTUS and exchange ammo!

It should surprise no one when we finally do pull out of Afghanistan without accomplishment. Our reasons for staying this long was to prevent the inevitable. But a power vacuum will ensue because we can’t stop it from doing so. And we’ll have to live with the reality that not everyone in the world has our interests at heart and we can’t make them do so.

As for McChrystal’s Big Bad Plan, they shouldn’t call it COIN. Call it the same they call our Constitution: TOILETPAPER!

Let’s see… A surge of troops which will, among other things, live among the population in order to foster trust and cooperation. That’s called quartering troops in times of… Well, we’re not exactly in times of peace than we are at war, at least if COIN is approved for Afghanistan. Think about the twisted logic of the whole thing. We’re at war, but we desire peace. To that end, we’re not at war, we’re just at some political/social disadvantage which importing of more troops for the locals to make friends with will somehow change.

The founders realized what this kind of thing is for. We’re either at war or we’re not! Making friends is not a legit use of the military. And it doesn’t foster peace, though it may at times force cooperation. It only encourages more insurgency and less trust. But somehow it will work in Afghanistan because some army big-wig who made disparaging remarks about Obama (who the hell hasn’t, though?!) said it will!?

COIN is just heads up the tails, is what it is. Wall Street is blind, our military leaders are blind… We never were going to win. This is just the Pentagon’s way of passing time until we’re forced to leave. No skin off their noses any more than it is off the President’s and Congress’s.

The quicker we get our ass kicked in Afghanistan, the sooner we can get out of there and stop the waste of billions of dollars and the lives, limbs, and sanity of our forlorn troops. The schmucks in the Senate plan to balance the budget by cutting $25 from UI checks, while throwing away trillions in foreign wars. McChrystal is very likely seeking a way out so he does not become William Westmoreland who “won every battle until he lost the war” in Vietnam, telling everyone “the end is in sight” from 1964 to 1968.
The Federal government is ceding National Park land in Arizona to the coyotes and drug cartels while our troops are everywhere on the planet but the USA. I think Germany, Japan, and Korea can afford to maintain a military of their very own for starters.