I believe I spoke to this subject before but in case I did not here goes. Last October I was here in West Point with my brother in law. While here I had a rare opportunity to speak with someone in the Army who worked DIRECTLY with McCrystal last summer in preparing plans for the troop increase. It was interesting to note that the 30K troops that McCrystal got was actually about half of what he wanted. So it is no wonder that the president hs pissing him off. Of course McCrystal is out of line for saying anything negative about the president et al and this is a clear violaton of the UCMJ, but I do understand why McCrystal is pissed. Hopefully he is not fired and he does not resign. I rather like the guy and hope that he keeps his job and I get to serve under him a year from now when I deploy to Afghanistan.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I see two things, separately, in there. One is McChrystal's take on > the military aspect of things. I can respect his disagreement with > tactics, strategy and execution. The other is bad mouthing your > bosses. And, quite frankly, you just don't go around bad mouthing your > bosses publicly. It is disrespectful. > > The thing I find most interesting is that this is the 2nd time he's > done this. When he wanted an assload of new troops, he went public and > complained. People were a bit pissed at how he handled it, Obama > continued the study he had already planned, then gave him 30,000 more > troops. McChrystal's offensive with those new troops failed.... > > > Judah > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321752 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
