Posted on November 13, 2009. Filed under: afghanistan, barack obama, blogging, military, news, politics | Tags: call, dismissal, general mcchrystal, liberals |
By Con George-Kotzabasis
WigWag surprisingly is on a fool’s errand. While he acknowledges the importance of victory in Afghanistan that could be delivered by the “proper course’ of McChrystal and the multi-dimensional effects such a victory would have on global jihadists, at the same time he would be willing to pull a “MacArthur” on a ‘politicized’ McChrystal and hence diminish the chances of the U.S. winning the war in Afghanistan. Alas, according to his ‘dismal’ logic, politics should trump military victory.
Moreover he unimaginatively disregards the totally negative political repercussions such an injudicious dismissal would have on Obama himself, in the current political climate in America that as Kervick notes, in an unusually correct insight, to make McChrystal a “martyr” would be a political calamity for Obama. And it would be the greatest of ironies if the ‘dismissed’ Commander-In-Chief himself by the world by its representative body the International Olympic Committee for sponsoring and promoting Chicago for the summer Olympics, which for a president to be involved directly in its bidding was politically most imprudent, will be dismissing his commander on the ground General McChrystal for his professional and prudent recommendation how to win the war in Afghanistan.
Posted by WigWag, Oct 02 2009, 9:33AM – Link
“WigWag surprisingly is on a fool’s errand”
Don’t be surprised Kotzabasis; I’m afraid that sometimes I think that fool’s errands are my specialty.
Cheers!
Posted by kotzabasis, Oct 02 2009, 10:48PM – Link
WigWag
Only a ‘fool’ who has your strength of character can laugh at himself.
Cheers!
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