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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
This is from the Rolling Stone Article:
Even though he had voted for Obama, McChrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect. The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office, when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as the Tank. According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked "uncomfortable and intimidated" by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn't go much better. "It was a 10-minute photo op," says an adviser to McChrystal. "Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his ****ing war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed."
Rupert: This does not make Obama look very good.
Riot: I disagree
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 |
considering how things went when the troop increase was suggested, by the man in charge of waging the war, and rejected...i'm not surprised at these comments. obama is out of his league, and this is just one more instance that proves it. he had no earthly idea how to proceed, and chose to completely ignore the suggestions and advice from his head man on the ground back right after taking office. this reminds me of how the germans waged war under hitler. now, before anyone gets their panties in a wad, i'm in no way likening obama to hitler...however, the fact that hitler felt the need to have a real hand in the waging of that war directly contributed to the germans losing that war (thank goodness for that).
now, just think if every time pershing in ww1, or eisenhower in ww2, had to go and beg for extra men from their cic's? hell, we'd still be in the trenches on the western front. but no, the presidents recognized that men who had trained since high school for military service, and had been taught planning and logistics, were those best to make these decisions-and they stayed the hell out of the way.