Furious President summons Gen. to D.C.

The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.

Well, it looks like the mainstream media stole my thunder once again. Back on June 17th, I penned a piece titled 'send in the clowns', only my piece dealt with the pitiful manner in which the gulf oil spill debacle has been handled. Good thing that I don't work for the president? Or I would be staring down the reality of being sacked much like Gen. McChrystal now is.

I can't say that I have sympathy for the man. After all, it's not like he suddenly grew a pair. He simply violated the supreme canon of presidential subservience and produced an efficacy that probably has suited his desires since the first week he took the job as commander in Afghanistan and realized that he was nothing more than the water boy for this president.

Make no mistake, I have never been an advocate or supporter of Gen, Stanley McCrystal. And a main reason that I haven't been, is that I realized from day one that his only roll in the ongoing drama of the dwindling war on terror in this administration, was to be Obama's policy yes man and lap dog in the region. Gen. McChrystal should have taken his lead from General Ray Odierno in Iraq, or Sec. of Defense Gates. Both of whom seem to understand their positions clearly in the Obama administration's circus.

McChrystal has done nothing in Afghanistan in my observation to contribute to the winning of that war. On the contrary, his actions and directives have if anything, further jeopardized our soldiers and marines unnecessarily. And all for the false and transparent worship of political correctness and secular egalitarianism. McChrystal's battle plan was simple IMO....

Let's place our troops in further unnecessary danger, by supposedly engaging in social approaches that are designed to win the hearts and mind of the enemy. Never having considered that for the most part, the hearts of the enemy and the people in Afghanistan, are sworn to the obedience and observance of a religion that is completely incompatible with western thinking on any level. While there minds remain mired in a seventh century reality that could not be changed incrementally if we stayed there another hundred years.

You don't win wars by winning the hearts and minds of zealots and those religiously committed to your death and their own. You win wars by bringing death and destruction to the door step of the enemy, on a level that is so unimaginable, as to cause those who survive to want to immediately sue for peace. Obviously these principles are no longer taught at the Army war college. Or are even discussed with the pinkie dipping class of tea and latte drinking generals that now stalk the halls of the Pentagon and Washington.

But I digress.......

McChrystal's debacle will be a flash on the screen over the course of this next week and he will be easily replaced with another who will hopefully find his rightful place in the drama politics of this presidency. And more Americans will die in Afghanistan as a result of this presidency and their loss will continue to be a heart felt pain and bewilderment to those who truly care about freedom and sacrifice.

Meanwhile, Did McChrystal really  say anything that thousands of others weren't thinking and don't recognize to be the facts? No, but that doesn't really matter does it.  The title of the article in Rolling Stone that got the general into hot water is "The Runaway General."

Personally? I believe the title of the piece should be "The General Who Ran Away."