It seems that Obama doesn't like criticism.
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ragnaroknrol wrote:
it is either a move to see how the President will react, or a major fustercluck.
Or he wished to be relieved of a crappy command, and embarrass his civilian overlords.
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Career suicide doesn't seem like a good option though. I would have looked for a better way out. ;)
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Career suicide doesn't seem like a good option though. I would have looked for a better way out. ;)
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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The issue is that it has developed into a blame culture and that has to be dealth with. They are supposed to fight the Taleban not each other.
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Did you read the article? Go through it and tell me where McChrystal blames the administration for anything. He makes a couple of quips about how to blow off questions about Biden - not quips about Biden. He learned that last time. I do see the blame culture, I just didn't see the General doing it.
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ragnaroknrol wrote:
Career suicide doesn't seem like a good option though.
Unless you know that staying would be worse.
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Very true. But a General always has a few options. Presidents come and go, but generals last generations.
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The issue is that it has developed into a blame culture and that has to be dealth with. They are supposed to fight the Taleban not each other.
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]
When politicians lie to get elected, and the government micromanages everything, and spends the country into oblivion making the regular tax paying joe responsible for paying it back, you are damn right people are going to blame the government. The government is responsible for most of our problems. You could blame the "little people" for submitting to big government, but what else can they do? If they don't submit, they get punished.
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Making it public was the only issue. You don't think the military joked on every president since GW (not Bush), you don't understand the military. But you keep it internal.
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This is very, very true.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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When politicians lie to get elected, and the government micromanages everything, and spends the country into oblivion making the regular tax paying joe responsible for paying it back, you are damn right people are going to blame the government. The government is responsible for most of our problems. You could blame the "little people" for submitting to big government, but what else can they do? If they don't submit, they get punished.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
You could blame the "little people" for submitting to big government, but what else can they do? If they don't submit, they get punished.
Absolving yourself, little person?
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Folks, the man is a General. This means there was an act of Congress required to promote him at one point or another. He had to get into the position to be considered and to get this. Anyone over Major in the military is a career solder AND a career politician. The two go hand in hand at that point. If you can't play the game, you will not be seeing stars on your shoulders. So when one of these individuals allows something like that to show up in a major publication, it is either a move to see how the President will react, or a major fustercluck. If it is the former, it is akin to a warning shot. "What you going to do, CiC? Bring it." If the latter "Whoops." If he was checking to see who would blink first, he lost. If it was a cluster, he doesn't play the game well enough and someone better at it will be doing the job soon enough. This isn't the first time someone with stars on his shoulders has decided to see if the CiC was a wuss, and I think in almost every case that has been a bad move for them, as the President doesn't have to bluff.
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He seems a bit brittle and defensive. Now he's sacked Gen McChrystal for daring to utter disparaging words; didn't he know that Obama walks on water (well, the oilier the water the better for this)?
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ragnaroknrol wrote:
fustercluck
This deserves a 5. :laugh:
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Is it sad that we used that term a lot in the military? Ticked off the PC hippies that hated swearing.
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Is it sad that we used that term a lot in the military? Ticked off the PC hippies that hated swearing.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
Good question. On the one hand, I wish we could have lost on-the-truck-off-the-truck-repeat activities. On the other I had first hand experience of why they happen, and how hard it is to stop them. :sigh: It was a big old army, full of people who were not outstanding at what they did. Not incompetent (mostly), but at least 50% were always below average. And they were the ones who got the suck jobs that held everyone else up. It took a while, but I've gotten OK with pissing off people who can't see something for what it is. :-D
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