McChrystal to Obama... "Go F*CK YOURSELF"!

And aslo what makes Gen McThingy and all the Pentagon big wigs think they can win the war with more men when the Soviet Union who are right next door failed miserably and left with a tail between their legs?

The sooner the US gets out the better, otherwise be prepared to stay there forever to suppress the guerrillas or they call themselves freedom fighters fighting a foregin occupational force.
 
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And aslo what makes Gen McThingy and all the Pentagon big wigs think they can win the war with more men when the Soviet Union who are right next door failed miserably and left with a tail between their legs?

The sooner the US gets out the better, otherwise be prepared to stay there forever to suppress the guerrillas or they call themselves freedom fighters fighting a foregin occupational force.
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The origins are our deeply ingrained sense of optimism in "Yankee ingenuity", and our Protestant work ethic.

Edit: oh, and our failure to study history.
 
The Soviets had over 100 000 men and 4000 air craft at peak. They still lost 15 000 men and were there for 10 years. Its a determined enemy.
 
LOL@the-socialist-who-critiques-others-for-not-studying-history!!!

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The origins are our deeply ingrained sense of optimism in "Yankee ingenuity", and our Protestant work ethic.

Edit: oh, and our failure to study history.
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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Pretty good analysis, although I think reasonable people can differ about the wisdom of a 25 year engagement. I am still trying to understand why we have troops in places like Germany, Japan and Korea, so I'm not really in favor of extending the empire.

We can no longer afford to be the world's policeman. Doing so encourages other countries not to pull their fair share and also foment resentment.

As for McChrystal, I think he would be a poor choice for conservatives to rally around as the anti-Obama. He claims to have supported and voted for Obama. As noted above, he was fired, not for any principled differences with the administration, but for shooting his mouth off in a highly unprofessional and injudicious manner in front of a reporter.

The strategy we are pursuing in afghanistan is his strategy. He may have some quibbles about how long it took obama to approve it and obama not being willing to send the entire U. S. Army there, but he was foolish to advocate a strategy that required such a commitment.
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I seldom agree with you politically but I agree with you 100% on what you wrote above.
 
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You claim to be Canadian yet you refer to American troops as "our forces"?
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everyone knows Canada is just an appendage of the USA
 
MCCHRYSTAL'S ATTACK HURTS OBAMA'S LEFT WING BASE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

"General Stanley McChrystal's interview in Rolling Stone Magazine will do a lot to damage further President Obama's standing among liberals and Democrats and will undermine his chances of keeping control of Congress in 2010.

To conservative voters and commentators, his comments underscore doubts about Obama's competence. To the Administration's spokespeople, the interview shows a lack of proper subordination in the chain of command. But to the voters of the left, the key import of his comments is that the general in charge of the war in Afghanistan basically said the war is not being won, and perhaps cannot be won.

Obama's decision to fire McChrystal guarantees that the story will now share page one with the Gulf oil spill, focusing liberal attention on Obama's two cardinal sins in liberal eyes - the oil spill and the war in Afghanistan. Relieving the general of command sends a message that Obama is thin-skinned, arrogant, and easily offended.

Coming at the same time that the failure of the Obama Administration to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf is already rankling liberal voters, the McChrystal comments will add to their doubts about Obama. They already are against his decision to send additional troops there and have long believed that we should not be fighting in Afghanistan. By calling attention to how badly the war is going and the disarray in the president's foreign policy apparatus, the McChrystal interview can only highlight and underscore these concerns and further dampen liberal enthusiasm for Obama.

Neither the oil spill nor the Afghan War will drive any liberals to vote for conservatives or induce Democrats to vote Republican. But they both will hold down Democratic turnout and reinforce cynicism about the Obama presidency on the left. Those initially attracted by Obama's charisma will be driven away by these twin failures.

The Democratic Party is really a synthesis of environmentalists and peace advocates with a few gay rights activists and public employee unions thrown in. Now, Obama has alienated both the green and the anti-war segments of the party. And the continuing spillage from the Gulf oil well and from the General's mouth will further damage his standing with his political base.

Whatever the fate of General McChrystal or of the American involvement in the war, the mounting casualty lists will drag down Obama's prospects in November still further and depress his ratings in the days ahead."
 
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