Well, if I’m to believe the reports, Stanley McChrystal is out as the top commander in Afghanistan.
Which is appropriate, quite honestly.  Fact of the matter is, even though McChrystal is bang-on right about Bambi, the UCMJ, per Blackfive, clearly prohibits what McChrystal did, which is criticize the limp, flaccid, impotent Commander-in-Chief.
I do believe that McChrystal clearly knows what he was doing.  You can’t say what he said to a media outlet – even if it is  Rolling Stone – and not expect that the White House won’t see it.
But maybe that was Mac’s plan all along.  Either he’s so desperate for the welfare of his men that he had to find some way to get Bambi’s attention – or maybe he’s finally had enough of the Ayatollah’s dithering, dillying & dallying and just wants out.  (Yes, he could have just resigned, but this makes more of an impact, I think.)
Whatever the motivation, the action speaks to Jugears McHopenchange’s sheer inability to effectively command his forces.  The war in Afghanistan under Bambi’s oversight has turned decidedly negative.
Hussein Pasha’s surge, unlike Bush’s in Iraq, has all but failed in Afghanistan.  Bambi is not very respected, either among his troops or amongst America’s allies.  He has done nothing overseas except apologize, seemingly, for America’s mere existence to those people America rightly considers either her enemies or folks not to be trusted.
Small wonder, therefore, that most of the rest of the world believes Ear Leader to be in over his head.  Even smaller wonder that morale amongst the troops in Afghanistan appears to be at a low point.
Moral has gone down the toilet. The troops are pissed about the ROE’s, they don’t like our pussy President, and they know we are just spinning our wheels.
Indeed.  I shudder to think of the endgame under this scenario.
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The criticizing of political leadership is covered in article 88 of the UCMJ: