Email my dad sent me about Mcchrystal

[SuperSetKing]

This is an interesting spin on the situation between the General and the AlObamma nuts. It certainly sounds more logical than anything I've read in the paper. I mean, you don't get to be a four star General and selected to run a war in an entire region of the world by being or acting undisciplined, now do you?

Best regards

Mike

A very fine read ..... gd

Subject: Fw: McChrystal

Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:34 P

Thought you would be interested

in this. Harry Blot is a retired three star Marine (in charge of all

Marine aviation) and the day after McChrystal retired we were talking about

it. Harry felt that McChrystal had planned the whole blow up. Sounds

like other people think so.

Subject:

FW: McChrystal

McChrystal

It looks like somebody else has come to the same conclusion

that I expressed at the luncheon.

"...McChrystal

and his staff have succeeded in doing exactly what they set out to

do."

"The

General" and "The Community Organizer"

by

Paul R. Hollrah

Senior

Fellow at Lincoln Heritage Institute

June 24, 2010

Channel-surfing

from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN through MSNBC and Fox News, the inside-the-beltway

pundits had a field day trying to get inside the heads of Barack Obama, Joe

Biden, General Stanley McChrystal, and McChrystal's top aides. The one

thing common to all of the analyses, by the most famous and highly-paid talking

heads in the Western World, was that they are all wrong… dead wrong. What

is certain is that they all owe General McChrystal and his senior aides an

apology for assuming that they are lame-brained numbskulls.

The facts of the McChrystal

case are not in dispute. General McChrystal and his senior officers

allowed a reporter for Rolling Stone Magazine, Michael Hastings, to have almost

unprecedented access during an extended stay in Paris. The extended stay

was due, in part, to an excess of atmospheric ash from Iceland's

Eyjafjallajokull volcano, keeping the McChrystal party grounded for days.

In an interview with CNN,

Hastings reported that he had a tape recorder in his hand most of the time and

that McChrystal was "very aware" that his comments would find their way into

print. He said, "McChrystal and his people set no ground rules for their

conversations, although they did ask that some parts of their conversations were

off the record." Hastings subsequently published a lengthy profile of

General McChrystal on June 22, titled, The Runaway General.

As Hastings

wrote in his profile, McChrystal thought that Obama looked "uncomfortable and

intimidated" by the roomful of military brass during their first meeting.

Of their second meeting, an advisor to McChrystal quoted the general as saying

that it was "a 10-minute photo op." He went on to say, "Obama clearly

didn't know anything about (McChrystal), who he was. Here's the guy who's

going to run his f_ _ _ing war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss

was pretty disappointed."

As General McChrystal flew from Afghanistan to

Washington to face Obama in the Oval Office, the almost unanimous opinion of the

talking heads was that the comments made by McChrystal and his staff were off

the cuff and inadvertent. But to believe that is to totally ignore who

these men are.

General McChrystal and his top

officers are not simple-minded, knuckle-dragging brutes. To the contrary,

they are intelligent, thoughtful, highly educated, patriots… graduates of West

Point and other fine universities… who are dedicated to duty, honor, and

country. To think that such men would be so careless as to speak

unflatteringly of Obama, Biden, and other top administration figures, in the

presence of a reporter for a notoriously left wing publication, defies logic… at

the very least. To think that men who are trained to be careful and

deliberate in everything they do, could do something so careless and so

unguarded is simply beyond comprehension.

I would argue that McChrystal

and his aides knew exactly what they were doing.

From the day that he became the

handpicked "spear carrier" for Obama's unique brand of warfare… playing at being

Commander in Chief while playing to his far left constituency… McChrystal's life

had been one of constant frustration. After telling Obama exactly how many

troops he needed to carry out his mission, Obama dithered for months before

deciding to give him just half the troops he requested. McChrystal could

not have been happy about that.

The Obama team insisted on new Rules of

Engagement designed to reduce collateral damage (civilian casualties).

Obama's ROE required that U.S. troops must be able to see the enemy with weapon

in hand before they were allowed to return fire. One videotape circulated

on the Internet showed a platoon of Marines pinned down by enemy sniper

fire. But since the enemy was firing from some distance behind the open

window of a building, the Marines could not actually see the weapon being

fired. Although they were taking deadly fire, they were prohibited by the

ROE from putting small arms fire or an RPG through the window

opening.

Under

Obama's politically correct ROE, our soldiers and Marines were required to fight

with one hand tied behind their backs. McChrystal could not have been

happy about that.

A strict new interrogation policy, dictated by Attorney

General Eric Holder, required that prisoners must be delivered to an

Interrogation Center within twenty-four hours of being captured or be

released. A great deal of actionable intelligence was lost as a result and

battle-hardened enemy fighters were returned to the field to kill

Americans. McChrystal must have found that to be

incomprehensible.

But the greatest insult to our troops in the field, and

to the officers who lead them, may be a new battlefield medal designed by the

Obama team. It is called the Courageous Restraint Medal and is awarded to

soldiers and Marines who demonstrate uncommon restrain in combat by not firing

their weapons even when they feel threatened by the enemy. Would we be

surprised to learn that the preponderance of these medals were awarded

posthumously? McChrystal must have found that to be an

insanity.

I suggest

that, having his best military judgments subjected to the White House political

sieve for nearly a year and a half, McChrystal decided that he'd had

enough. And when he announced to his senior staff that he was prepared to

retire they decided to push back… to make the most of a bad situation. It

was clear that, if McChrystal were to simply take off his uniform and walk away,

his retirement would be page-twenty news for a day or two before the mainstream

media and the American people forgot all about him.

They had to make the most of

his retirement because it provided a one-time opportunity to show the American

people, as well as our enemies and our allies, that the man who claims the title

of Commander in Chief of the U.S. military does not command the respect of our

men and women in uniform. To make the most of that opportunity they had to

choose their messenger very carefully.

They knew that, by openly showing

their disrespect for Obama in front of just any newsman, they may not attract

the attention they desired. Like any astute observer of the MSM, they knew

that most reporters would turn on their own mothers if it meant a good

story. But they could not take a chance that a mainstream media reporter

might suffer a rare pang of conscience when confronted with the prospect of

ruining the careers of some of the most senior officers in the War on

Terror. They had to fix the odds as much as possible in their favor so

they chose to use Michael Hastings and Rolling Stone Magazine.

During the long hours that

General McChrystal was in the air between Kabul and Washington, Obama knew that

he had just two choices… both bad. He could declare McChrystal to be an

irreplaceable asset in the war effort, give him a public reprimand, and send him

back to Kabul. Or he could fire McChrystal, sending a clear message that,

at least in his own mind, he was the Commander in Chief.

In the former

case, he was certain to appear weak and ineffectual… a man not totally in

charge. In the latter case, he might at least win a few rave reviews from

the Kool-Ade drinkers in the mainstream media. He chose the latter of the

two options.

But

what is now lost in all of the hand-wringing and speculation is the fact that

McChrystal and his people have succeeded in doing exactly what they set out to

do. They wanted to plant the seed in the minds of the American people that

Obama is not up to the task of being Commander in Chief and that he does not

command the respect of the men and women of the uniformed services… from the

newest Private E-1 up to the top four-star generals and admirals.

That

seed is now firmly planted and it cannot be unplanted.

From this day forward, no one

will have to tell the American people that Stanley McChrystal is a true warrior,

a man's man, and that Barack Obama is nothing more than a… community

organizer. Well done, General!

[SuperSetKing]

cant believe no one commented on this. I thought it was a hell of an angle of the situation.

[Balzyone]

sorry it was too long for me to comment on. My ADHD would have gone nutz

[SuperSetKing]

its pretty good to towards the end. Talking about Obama designing a medal for soldiers that show resistance to fire back in combat. The best part, and its the point my dad made when he called me Friday night, is that you just dont happen to fall into a 4 star general posistion. You have to eat breath and schit military. You went to west point, your very aware of what and how you are to act. He made the statement to me, "some of the most intelligent men I know are my colleges at the Pentagon, this man was not so dense that he didnt know exactly what he was doing when he said those things".

[Guest tintjam65]

For me having been a military man myself, I've come to understand that no matter what is thought of those in charge and the decisions they make or behavior they display, historically, it has never bode well for any high ranking official or officer to publicly disrespect the president.

I wasn't there and don't know or care about the full story, but everyone does own and sit on an opinion. With Lincoln's words in mind, these days and contradictory as the words may come across, I really do make an attempt at not furthering of our country's current divisiveness by airing my 'feelings'. That would be why I didn't respond when first reading the post.

Politics, religion and s*x are three things I was taught not to air in public; today its so the norm and even cliche to do so, it has our country dividing through polarization. Something a very fine president once feared. "A house divided cannot stand", were his words.