This Article Is Bound To Inflame Everyone Here!

[FerrelGeek]

Exactly this. Obama believes his own press, which makes this a potentially disastrous situation. More that once, he's referred to the military as 'his military'. He's also so bloody arrogant that he thinks he knows more about the art of war than those who've studied it their whole adult lives. Cap that off with a lout like Kerry having a big hand in this and this should give anyone that's not a sold out Obama fellatier cause for concern. I'm not surprised at all that people would try to twist the words of a disgruntled general into alluding to a coup. This mania of 'thou shalt not criticize Obama is really getting old.

And again, for the record, I criticized Bush when he was in office on a political board that I belonged to at the time, so this is not out of partisanship, as I have no use for the Rs either.

You say that as if there couldn't possibly be any legitimate criticism in how Obama has handled this Syria thing.

Assuming Scales is accurate in his descriptions, what I mostly see is frustration in the military with how Obama is handling Syria. That makes sense if reports are correct that the WH has looked at more than 50 attack plans regarding Syria. More than 50 plans? Yeah, I'm guessing the Pentagon is pretty damn frustrated.

And I think that being tasked with drawing up an attack plan when no clear objective is known would drive people up a wall. The normal course is to identify the objective first then let the military experts draw up a plan getting you there. This is a "we don't know where we're going with this, but we want you to draw up a plan getting us there". WTH?

Fern

 

[Fern]

Please. The objective is to assist rebel factions in the ouster of the Assad regime. The rest is merely rationale for doing so, excuses.

The underlying problem is that the cure may end up worse than the disease, given the ideology of some of the rebels.

God, I sincerely hope not.

Fern

 

[rommelrommel]

I have never been in favor of going to war over another country's in house issues. I am not in favor of attacking Syria. Political issues, should be resolved using political means, not military action.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

Especially when you maintain a massive standing army...

 

[werepossum]

Just a couple of small corrections.

1. Vietnam is NOT the only war in which Scales fought; he was a battalion commander in Korea.

2. Evidently everyone will not be inflamed, as other than a touch of disgust at the article's (lack of) quality and a general feeling that retired generals need to retain some of that service-required restraint, I personally felt no inflament. (Inflammity? Flamousity? Flamitude? Dang it!)

 

[SlickSnake]

Our government is for sale to the highest bidder, or any bidder at all if no one else is interested. That should be abundantly clear by now to anyone who is not drunk or crazy on the left, right or middle. Whatever shreds of democracy our country pretended to enshrine prior to 911, after that date, were forever destroyed. Yet many flag waving PC sheeple still haven't woken up to that fact yet, and likely never will.

Because as long as the sheeple can still get their favorite cheap chicken nuggets junk food from China and sit mesmerized in front of their cheap HDTVs from China with a 18 pack of cheap beer while they relive their unhappy childhood sport failures while watching their favorite sport team of the season who are now sponsored by Chinese products, they remain stupidly blind to the government coming completely apart at the seams. And the fact many are permanently jobless while the government supports them on welfare for being unemployed keeps them all somewhat contented and too lazy and fat to resist.

While this may seem a bit off topic, it's not, and it helps to explain why the scheming politicians get away with everything they want to do, with almost no political resistance no matter how antidemocratic they care to act and how many jobs are lost due to gross fiscal mismanagement and secret and not so secret economic deals that are destroying the middle class.

And endless wars and threats of wars, terrorism and political insecurity breed endless funding without any fiscal accountability or even much political oversight and spawn massive government jobs for the military industrial/spy complex that is already much worse and out of control than anything even possibly imagined just 50 years ago.