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ELB wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:What the heck happened to this man? He used to be the darling of conservatives.....
Wasn't my darling. He traded US classified information and his own honor to help some reporter write a nice about him in a book. I saw people get their careers effectively ended for making actual honest mistakes with classified material that did not result in any actual release of information, not conscious decisions to trade access for getting in some gal's pants.

I have no doubt the administration made sure this came to light in order to forestall any possible political challenge by him, but that doesn't excuse him giving them the ax to chop his head off with, nor for thinking he didn't have to play by the rules all his subordinates had to go by.

He should fit right in with the anti-2A crowd, and we should not let anyone forget what he did.

Yes all that is true. But before all of that, when he was still running the show in Iraq, CENTCOM and Afghanistan, he was very highly regarded by a lot of people for his implementation of an effective counter-insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I certainly admired him at the time. When he left all that behind for other things is when both countries really went to hades. I don't suppose one attains his rank without being a politician (not meant as a compliment), but I recall one of the praises people sung about him back then was the strength of his personal integrity. Apparently it doesn't make room for liberty. I am actually surprised and disappointed. I thought that he might be one of the good ones.

The Annoyed Man

What the heck happened to this man? He used to be the darling of conservatives.....

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