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Title: McChrystal’s Ultimatum
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URL Source: http://original.antiwar.com/huber/2009/10/05/mcchrystals-ultimatum/
Published: Oct 6, 2009
Author: Jeff Huber
Post Date: 2009-10-06 23:50:26 by christine
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Views: 262
Comments: 21
Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s latest insubordination was an act of sheer petulance. We already know via unnamed reliable sources that McChrystal has threatened to resign if he doesn’t get the next wave of escalation in Afghanistan he wants. The sanctioned leak of his report on Afghanistan to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and McChrystal’s 60 Minutes infomercial made it clear to everyone who hadn’t already noticed that he and his allies in the long-war mafia were waging information warfare against President Barack Obama, a campaign that has led to a call from the right-wing fringe for a military coup to solve "the Obama problem." McChrystal upped the ante with an Oct. 1 address to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he said, “we must show resolve” in Afghanistan and that “uncertainty disheartens our allies and emboldens our foes.” Asked if a more limited counterterrorism effort, rather than the full-blown counterinsurgency campaign he has proposed that would involve a half million troops or more, would succeed in Afghanistan, McChrystal said, “The short answer is: no. You have to navigate from where you are, not where you wish to be. A strategy that does not leave Afghanistan in a stable position is probably a shortsighted strategy.” That was a slap to the face of his commander in chief, President Barack Obama, who has convened a strategy conference to consider McChrystal’s proposal along with alternative strategies. You might ask if McChrystal, the four-star in command of all U.S. and NATO forces in a critical theater of war in Central Asia, didn’t have better things to do on Oct. 1 than give a chalk talk to a warfare-centric think-tank in London. The horrific answer is that drumming up support for his escalation in Afghanistan is the most important thing Stan McChrystal has to do, at least from the perspective of the long-war mob. The vaunted counterinsurgency field manual that McChrystal proposes to adhere to is a how-to guide for constructing a country from the molecular level up. That’s not just nation building; it’s nation birthing. It might work in a nation that’s a third the size of Rhode Island. We’re as likely to turn Afghanistan into a real country as we are to make a herd of cats march in a straight line. What McChrystal suggests is that we can transform a corrupt and violent patch of society in a country the size of Texas by pouring bribes and firepower into it. McChrystal says he needs more U.S. troops to "buy time" for Afghan military and police forces to take control of the country in 2013. The Afghan military and police forces aren’t likely to be able to take control of their country by 2113. Alexander the Great never really had control there. Afghanistan has never been a threat to anyone except people who tried to conquer it. It’s a sleepy hollow that has been the boneyard of many empires, including the British and the Russians. Afghanistan’s connection to 9/11 is fuzzy at best. Nobody involved in those attacks, including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, actually came from Afghanistan. McChrystal admits there is no sign of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and what’s left of al-Qaeda in Pakistan appears to consist of eight or ten Islam-hooligans who live on the run. To counter this nonexistent threat, McChrystal wants America to make an all-in commitment to Afghanistan. McChrystal’s superiors – Gen. David Petraeus, chief of Central Command and Adm. Mike Mullen, Joint Chief of Staff chairman – have endorsed McChrystal’s madness even though they can’t give a good reason why they’re behind it. We need a good, long think, not just about our Afghanistan strategy but American grand strategy, the purposeful employment of all our instruments of power. The first thing we need to recognize is that our military is out of control. It drives our foreign and domestic policies and it gives us little in the way of national security. We have no military peer competitors. The defense budgets of China and Russia are about 10 percent of ours. Pismire Iran’s defense budget is less than 1 percent of ours. America and its Western allies account for more than 95 percent of global arms sales. If anyone wants an arsenal that can match ours, they’ll have to buy it from us. The dirty little wars we’re fighting now aren’t making us safer. Every bomb and bullet we expend creates more terrorists than it eliminates. The reason we haven’t had another 9/11 isn’t that we’re "fighting them over there." 9/11 wouldn’t have happened at all except for the circle competition culture among the alphabet-soup agencies (CIA, FBI, FAA, NCA, JFCOM, etc.) that should have kept it from happening. Today, preventing a terrorist attack is good for one’s career. (Counterterrorism: it’s not just for losers anymore.) Ironically, the U.S. military’s ability to achieve national goals has decreased as its power increased. We were an also-ran batch of ex-colonials until World War I (a war I’ll always maintain we should have stayed out of. We would have become a global hegemon much sooner if we had let Europe bleed itself white and then offered to feed it for a few decades while it grew, or imported from us, a new generation of fathers.) World War I led to World War II, which led to the Cold War and the dirty little Third World wars like Korea and Vietnam that accompanied it. When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, we were promised a peace dividend that never materialized (de-materialized?). Now, a media-savvy Pentagon has dared President Obama to stand up to it. I’m hoping he does. I’ve said for some time that he needs to demand the resignation letters from every bird colonel and general officer and every Department of Defense official whose job title includes the word "secretary." Those measures sound draconian, but they’re the kind of things Obama has to do if he hopes to get the military back on its leash. If he can’t, Allah help us all.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Really??? Obama has already fired Gen. McKiernan from the ME, why not fire Gen. McChrystal??? Keep firing until you find a total knee padder. Obumski is in way over his head, his Jew managers have maneuvered him into an impossible position by announcing ahead of time that we would not be leaving Afghan. That makes the US position impossible. Stay and many more will die in a no win situation. A decision will be made by friday, if they are not brain dead. And if I were McChrystal I would be cautious about flying.
IMVHO, the recent report of a heated meeting in Copenhagen between O and McChrystal was a desperate to effort to keep McChrystal from walking. Since the infamous Obama Afghanistan Surge of 30k troops, the SHHTF and more troops are needed simply to stand off the dreaded Taliban. Can you imagine the chaos in the ranks when it sinks in that Obama fired McKiernan and McChrystal walked for lack of support? There is one way out of Afghanistan and it's by air ASAP. Obama's "good war" and the political door knockers and phone bank queens who supported Him should take a good look at their bloody hands. .
Unfortunately, most Americans are NOT paying attention. We have an ongoing test of power within the government, to the good in my mind, McChrystal stands to be the loser but he is willing to bet the pot. Throw him out and Rahm Obumski will make a hero of him. So what is going to be done??? The Jew managers have got to come up with a face saving solution for all. I cannot fathom what it might be. I hope the General pays close attention to his own welfare.
Right you are, and beware of the operatives who keep thinks light with discussions of birth certificates and Palin. We're in some dangerous water and oafs who go out of their way to denigrate gatherings of pissed off Americans aren't to be trusted.
There is a test of will and power going on. Someone has to bite the dust and somehow in the end it will be McChrystal. He appears to me a man that is NOT impressed with the office of the presidency nor the puppet that sits there. Rahm Obumski has got to be intimidated by the man, no manner of bluff nor bullshit will make him eat crow. He has put it all in the pot, winner take all.
The minions of deception, such as...say...some of the NCWO tools that hang out at patriot websites such as these and either use outright, utter and total intellectual dishonesty -or- more subtle tactics...are the RATS that will stab the revolution and it's leaders in the back first. Don't ever forget who the enemy is and what must be done if things are ever to be turned around then sustained. IMO
A 'smedley' moment ??
The enemy within.
I pray for such. I told Jethro, this General is NOT impressed with the trappings of the presidency nor buckwheat that sits in the Oval office.
They need to launch a new Clown forum where they'll be more at home.
Man is it ever going to get fugly...
When the roof fell in, in Korea, Truman ordered MacArthur to rush to their aid. MacArthur replied...with what...
There is a very tiny squib today that Congress passed the war funding bill..the rotten spineless bastards.
If he IS a 'butler' - then he's going to pay a heavy price. I believe it's worth it. If he isn't, what price should he and the rest of the sellouts pay for what they have done and are doing (and obviously will continue to do in an expanded form) ?
What's sick is that they 'feel at home' amongst good, Constitutionally-minded, decent people as they ply their heinous trade...
Maybe I am just hoping but from his actions and his physical bearing I do not see him as bluffing. He seems like a less profane, stern of bearing man like Patton.
Were there not a NCWO conspiracy in place long before, China wouldn't be a threat to anyone today. Of course, the 'action' in Korea was UNCONstitutional...
That's where it starts; funding. LOL The 'they' folk control everything now and continue with the status quo. The RATS believe they're brilliant, superior...when in fact they're diabolically ignorant and ultimately stoooooooopid like your average sheeple repubican.
Maybe I am just hoping but from his actions and his physical bearing I do not see him as bluffing. He seems like a less profane, stern of bearing man like Patton. Could be another devious charade, too. I've become cynical maybe ? LOL You can't get that far up the pole with smoking some IMO.
Very possible. However, Obumski has come out of this looking very bad, so I believe the General is on the up and up. By friday we should know how the game comes out.
Look, they're talking about you. One of your 10 must have talked
first thing we need to recognize is that our military is out of control.
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
Obama has already fired Gen. McKiernan from the ME, why not fire Gen. McChrystal??? Keep firing until you find a total knee padder.
#3. To: Jethro Tull, Christine (#2)
Can you imagine the chaos in the ranks when it sinks in that Obama fired McKiernan and McChrystal walked for lack of support?
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
Unfortunately, most Americans are NOT paying attention.
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
We're in some dangerous water
#6. To: Jethro Tull, noone222 (#4)
We're in some dangerous water and oafs who go out of their way to denigrate gatherings of pissed off Americans aren't to be trusted.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#8. To: Rotara (#6)
#9. To: Rotara (#7)
A 'smedley' moment ??
#10. To: Rotara (#6)
utter and total intellectual dishonesty -or- more subtle tactics
#11. To: Cynicom (#8)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#12. To: Rotara, Jethro Tull, All (#7)
#13. To: Rotara, Jethro Tull, All (#11)
Man is it ever going to get fugly...
#14. To: Cynicom, noone222 (#9)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
They need to launch a new Clown forum where they'll be more at home.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#16. To: Rotara (#14)
If he IS a 'butler'
#17. To: Cynicom (#12)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#18. To: Cynicom (#13)
There is a very tiny squib today that Congress passed the war funding bill..the rotten spineless bastards.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#19. To: Cynicom (#16)
If he IS a 'butler'
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#20. To: Rotara (#19)
Could be another devious charade, too.
#21. To: buckeroo (#0)
... waging information warfare against President Barack Obama, a campaign that has led to a call from the right-wing fringe for a military coup to solve "the Obama problem.
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