Welcome to issue 316 of your Military. The latest to join the ranks of our lifetime subscribers are:
• MGYSGT JAMES KAY, WINCHESTER, TN
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I thank everyone for the outpouring of support I’ve received regarding those who accuse me of relentlessly bashing Obama — which, of course, I do, and will continue to do so. I guess the truth hurts and some just can’t stand the truth! I have tried to see things from the left’s prospective but I just can’t willingly ignore the truth and believe their fantasies that everything is just peachy. It is not in my DNA to willfully reject the truth and believe a lie!
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According to U.S. Navy regulations, and this might be the same for the other services as well, if the crewmembers of a warship have evidence that their captain is incompetent, they can file a loss of confidence in his or her ability to command report, have it investigated by JAG and have the said captain removed from command. Now, as the President is the commander over all of our military forces, why can’t the higher ups in the Pentagon file a similar report on Obama for loss of confidence in his ability to command? It is more and more apparent that this man is too incompetent to successfully execute this war to some sort of victory.
In my opinion, I believe he is biding his time until next July when he can pull troops out of Afghanistan and declare the mission over without any clear-cut victory. He has certainly indicated, at least to me anyway, that he doesn’t care about the war and that it is merely a distraction for him from his ultimate goal of socializing America. The social reengineering of our country is what he wants to complete by the end of his first term, and from the looks of things, he just might accomplish it.
While I fully understand the military regulations of not questioning your commanding officer and the Commander-in-Chief, the relieving of General McChrystal comes as no surprise. I’m certain that he, along with his aides, had become frustrated with the way the bumbling incompetent-in-chief was, and is, attempting to micromanage the war, instead of letting the military leaders handle the situation. I certainly hope and pray that General Petraeus can effectively bring some kind of victory for our forces in Afghanistan, but it’s going to be difficult given the restrictive Rules of Engagement our troops are saddled with. Our troops are doing the absolute best they can, given the cards they have been dealt so they certainly have my utmost respect in attempting to do the nearly impossible.
This is now Obama’s war, and has been for the past 18 months. He has done nothing but embolden the Taliban and al Qaeda making it more deadly for our troops. In fact, in the 18 months since he took office, there have been 1,124 killed in action in Afghanistan. That is a dramatic increase in KIAs over the past nine years of this war; however, most of those KIAs happened in a three-month period, beginning in late April.
Hopefully, General Petraeus can turn things around in short order, providing he can get the support and cooperation he needs from the White House and Congress. I would sure hate to see this war turn into another ’Nam where we had decisive victory on the ground, but lost the war at home because of the lying liberals. Unfortunately those pot-smoking, peace-loving, acid-tripping, liberal hippies are now in charge of not only our government, but our schools and universities where they can spew their Marxist dogma on the young impressionable minds to further their goals of socio-communism.
Our country is losing its greatness, but while we still have a voice, make it count. Love for this administration is waning; hopefully we will have the chance to fire them at the ballot box.
— John D. Shank, Editor