#3
"Strong opinions a expressed."
Well yes, it's an opinion piece at frontpagemag.com.
"Also, concern trolling (!)."
Just what are you saying?
Overall I found the article very interesting.
However, I don't agree with the statement:
"But a year later, Petraeus met the same fate as McKiernan and McChrystal after alienating the CIA top brass which enmeshed him in a scandal."
Petraeus did that to himself and he should have known better. The "top brass" may have helped bring his zipper control problem to light, but Petraeus has only himself to blame.
#4
"Also, concern trolling (!)."
Just what are you saying?
Not all my attempts at humour succeed, it seems. Sorry. That was the first time I saw the term, and in a serious, old-style magazine, too. It struck me the way some of the things I've learnt here strike the trailing daughters when I say them aloud, not thinking that perhaps I'm a tad mature for such vocabulary.
As for the Strong opinions a[re] expressed, it struck me that the opinions stated in the piece were considerably more strongly felt than usual. Not a judgement, merely an observation. Had I thought it inappropriate, or merely not right for Rantburg, I shouldn't have published it.
#7
After reading Chuck's comment, I went back and gave the article a re-read. Granted, Petreaus "did it to himself" and no doubt he [Petreaus] would be the first to admit it. However, as one who is always probing the sky for black helicopters, in the innermost recesses of my brain housing group I will always wonder if she was a plant.
#9
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a definite lack of substantive "resigning/retiring in protest" among the career Flag Officers*? It seems more like musical chairs with the White House mafia pulling the setting out from under these guys one by one.
*When officers make 07 grade and above, they actually do get a flag embroidered with their rank.
#10
The internal process of performance review, Fitness {FITREPS} and Officer Evaluation Reports [OER} generally tends to weed out independent thinkers and stand-up men long before they achieve Flag rank. Final elevation to 07 [General Officer] is a rather exclusive, back-channel political process as opposed to one of formal selection board review based upon an individual's career accomplishments and merit. The propensity to select officer who look quite like yourself is ever present and widely accepted.
#11
Example: "We've made some outstanding progress in Afghanistan and we all should be proud of that. However, lately there have been some events which raise concern regarding the apparent deceleration in tempo. Perhaps it's time to rethink our basic strategy in the theater and consider whether the current command (however experienced) has the optimal players to sustain the effort and meet ongoing objectives."
Government-by-fake-disaster-movie seems to be going swimmingly for Obama. Every Republican attempt at fiscal discipline now ends with both higher spending and more taxes: that's the way it went with the Christmas blockbuster "Fiscal Cliff," and that's the way to bet with "Les Sequesterables," too. Even the IRS can't keep up: "tax season" is upon us, and yet they're not accepting tax returns from millions of Americans because the IRS hasn't yet managed to process the tax changes passed in the dead of night at New Year. American government is a joke -- and, sadly, not one of those jokes that everybody takes seriously and kicks up a fuss about, like Seth MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" song that the New Yorker attacked for its "hostility to women in the workplace," or Joan Rivers' joke about Heidi Klum's Oscars gown that Abraham Foxman's Anti-Defamation League is busy issuing stern denunciations of. No, in an America in which every throwaway gag is a hate crime, Obama's fake disaster movie of the month is the only joke we all go along with, even though he's insulting our intelligence far more than Seth and the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus singing "We Saw Your Boobs" to Anne Hathaway and Halle Berry.
Can you pierce the mists of time and go back all the way to the year 2007? Back then, federal spending was 40 percent lower than it is today. In a mere half-decade, has all that 40 percent gravy become so indispensable to the general welfare that not even a teensy-weensy sliver of it can be cut?
If you really believe that, then America is going to die, and a gullible citizenry willing to give this laughable charade the time of day will bear ultimate responsibility. We have seen the boobs, and they are us.
#1
This Particular "Fake" Disaster has the makings of a Block Buster, we have a lying CEO, the Military's the clueless fall guy, and the Citizens are revolting, Yep, all the makings.
I give it a solid "Thumbs Down" for acting, Poor choice for a leading man.
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#2
They are professional crisis creators. Government by crises, all the time, every time.
He himself made this problem and now wants to wish it away using it as a political chip. Playing with peoples lives every day, day in and day out is something only a psychopath would do.
You say he has gotten no one killed? I say otherwise.
The future of This Nation shall be shrouded in crises from here on out thanks to this Lot.
It never had to be this way, but that is the law of man.
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