Sunday, September 21, 2014

Obama Must Start "Leading From Behind" His Generals

Well, he DOES refer to it as "my military".

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, salutes President Obama during a Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington, Va., on May 26, 2014...
 
"War On Terror: Top brass — both now serving and retired — say that President Obama's strategy is likely to fail against the Islamic State. Clearly he has put his presidential legacy before our national security.

"Two weeks after his inauguration in 2009, the president visited second graders at Washington's Capital City Public Charter School and told the kids, "You're excellent listeners!"
Mr. Obama, sadly, is not an excellent listener. But he does appreciate excellent listeners, like those second-graders — and the "sycophants" who work in his White House "cocoon," as columnist Charles Krauthammer recently put it in a Hugh Hewitt radio interview.

"There's now a growing rift between a commander-in-chief wedded to his peacenik political base and those he commands, because he won't listen to military experts." ... Read more...

The mayor of Las Vegas sized this president up years ago: 

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