Pasadena Politics

Obama, such an interesting individual to attempt to take on a Commander of Men.    He seems in over his head when he ’summons’ the General he put in charge of wrapping up the Afghan war for simply expressing his impression of the President:

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 f—ing war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.”

This is a man tasked with winning a war while keeping casualties of our own men and women serving this great nation down as much as possible.  This is a man who must, by our President’s policies, fight with one or both hands tied behind his back.  If he was really as unprofessional as everyone is saying he is, then he could certainly have said worse.

At least he apologized for his lack of professionalism, but the man leading this nation is not moral enough to accept such an apology.  An example must be made.  Will the President fire McChrystal or will he blame the failure of his own policies in Afghanistan and the unrealistic ‘time table’ for withdraw being blown on the offending General?

The President is not a man anywhere near the same caliber as McChrystal.   He cannot lead for he blames all failures on others while taking all praise for any success.  He fancies himself a monarch, not the servant-leader of the people of this nation and protector of our Constitution.