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Good point, TAM. Any real man salty enough to be president wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to anything in a worthless magazine like Rolling Stone. Just another example of Obama being a small, pathetic, worthless man - no class, no guts, no brains, no character, no integrity, no experience, no judgement. And all the talk about insubordination shows how little the media understands about the word and how loyal they are to him.



The reason for Gen. McChrystal's comments is still hard to figure out. He could have been fed up and shot his mouth off, he could have wanted it to play out this way so that he could get out and do a little finger pointing. Then again, we can put our crazy conspiracy hats on and say this might be freeing himself up for leadership of an upcoming war against Iran (which there have been rumblings of due to some Israeli troop movements). But who knows, I don't think the general in Afghanistan is going to make much of a difference since it is going to remain a mess no matter what.










And still - no birth certificate.

No country has successfully brought Afghanistan into some form of control and organization, and many have tried. Our leaders are not willing to do the things necessary to eliminate the terrorists that hide in Afghanistan, so instead they have concocted some scheme of nation building as the goal in place of terrorist hunting. So our troops are put in an impossible position of having to fight an enemy that knows no bounds while playing nice and not offending the locals. The results are not surprising - 9 years worth of dead and wounded American soldiers, wasted American money, and not much to show for it. In my opinion we are not willing to wage a total war then we should not be waging a war at all. And we sure as hell should not be sending our troops into battle with a lawyer on one shoulder and a "journalist" (and boy do I use that term loosely) on the other and orders to be nice. The military is designed to kill people and destroy things, so if you want something killed or destroyed call the military. If you want to win hearts and minds and spread the general feel-goods, call someone else, and under no circumstances make our soldiers sitting ducks.