McChrystal's Leak No Problem for GOP Backers »
Posted By Tumultuous 2 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionSeemingly with each passing day, General Stanley McChrystal grows in the esteem of President Obama's conservative foes. After having savaged General Eric Shinseki for his pre-Iraq war testimony that the occupation would require "several hundreds of thousands" of American troops, Republicans have seized on McChrystal's public demands for more forces in Afghanistan as their latest battering ram to bludgeon Obama on national security. And as it turns out, McChrystal's inadvertent leak earlier this month regarding a classified CIA analysis puts him in the same company as Republicans John Boehner, Pete Hoekstra, Pat Roberts and, of course, Dick Cheney.
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Actually it is only the ZionCon wing of the GOP that "supports" McChrystal. This is not surprising since both he and Petraeus are full fledged zioncons and were sluiced into their positions by ZionCons.
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Real Americans should by now understand that the first loyalty of the ZionCons is not to America and that their "policies" have been an unmitigated disaster for the US. Frankly Obama should be edging all the right-wing israel-firsters out of the Pentagon.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal - NeoCon Shill
You’d think that by now everyone would know better than to give anyone associated with Bill Kristol’s neoconservative cabal the time of day, but no. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, our man in Afghanistan, has written a conveniently leaked assessment that demands we once again escalate our efforts in his theater of war, a demand that the dogs of war are howling for Obama to accede to.
It turns out that one of the primary tank thinkers who helped McChrystal crank out his assessment was Fred Kagan, the neoconservative superstar who brought us the surge in Iraq. Two years and change into its execution the Iraq surge is a strategic cesspool. As U.S. Army Colonel Timothy Reese recently observed, our years of effort at establishing a competent and reliable government and security apparatus in Iraq have come to naught. The "ineffectiveness and corruption" of Iraq’s government, he wrote in a recent memorandum, "is the stuff of legend." Of Iraq’s security forces, Reese wrote, "Corruption among officers is widespread." Laziness is "endemic" and "lack of initiative is legion." ...
That Kagan, and by extension the entire neocon cabal, still has such influence is not only alarming, it is dangerous. Even worse is the manner in which the neocons have aligned themselves with the Pentagon in its power struggle with the Obama administration. ...
...McChrystal’s report is a compendium of the same sort of gibberish that got us embroiled in the Iraq fiasco. Eight years after we first fumbled our efforts in Afghanistan, the neocons lament, it may become a failed state if we don’t send more troops and money there now, now, now. Afghanistan has been a failed state since Alexander the Great drove through it. McChrystal says that "overwhelming firepower" is not the solution to the Afghanistan situation, yet he and Kagan are asking for more firepower.
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