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| Jones Out as National Security Advisor |
| 2010-10-08 |
| National Security Adviser James L. Jones will resign his post and be replaced by his deputy, Thomas E. Donilon, effective immediately, senior administration officials said Friday. What brought this on? Are those bus-tire tracks on Gen. Jones' back? Although Jones's departure has been expected, it comes at a delicate time for President Obama as he prepares for an important review of his Afghanistan strategy in December. Obama is scheduled to announce the decision at 1 p.m. EDT in the White House Rose Garden. A retired Marine general, Jones brought decades of national security experience to the post and military credibility to an administration whose senior civilian members had never served in uniform. He expanded the National Security Council to include agencies responsible for American energy, economic and environmental policy, believing that those issues would play a far larger role in shaping U.S. defense and diplomatic strategy in the decades to come. Knucklehead. National Security is a hard enough job w/o adding a bunch of other things. But Jones, a towering if aloof figure, often had trouble fitting into a National Security Council culture dominated by several hard-charging veterans of Obama's campaign who have known the president for years. His condition for initially taking the job - that he would be the last one to see Obama on the most pressing national security issues of the day - was often unmet. No surprise there, and it betrays him as a political light-weight. RTWT for early commentary on his replacement, Mr. Donilon. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #9 Well he kinda peaked at Some Came Running, never could handle Whistle. |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-10-08 19:05 |
| #8 Since the EPA had been renamed USEPA. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-10-08 18:15 |
| #7 Reports say Woodward's book has Gates foreseeing Jones ouster and replacement by Donilon, whom Gates described as a disaster. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2010-10-08 16:58 |
| #6 "Tom Donilon is a partner at the law firm of OÂ’Melveny & Myers and serves on the firmÂ’s global governing committee. Tom served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of State during the Clinton Administration." Ah yes, the Clinton Administration. When America was sold out. Since when do law firms have "global governing" committees? http://change.gov/learn/national_security_team_leads |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-10-08 16:27 |
| #5 Mullen is a scheduled rotation as the CJCS; Gates is probably just fed up. Too bad as Gates is a good SecDef. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2010-10-08 15:04 |
| #4 Gates and Mullen are also leaving soon; looks like the top military geniuses surrounding Obumble will resemble bobble heads, each competing to bobble faster. will this nonsense ever end? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-10-08 14:59 |
| #3 So, the ideologue suckups and sycophants who plan to bail this sinking ship soon for a K Street, lobbying-bandito job sunk him, huh. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2010-10-08 14:49 |
| #2 Buy them, Use them, fire them. So what else is new? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-08 13:49 |
| #1 Obama needed a Pentagon and national agency tutor. The war strategy is now set. Tutor no longer required. Have a nice, unfriended day General. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-08 13:10 |