The volcano in Iceland was considered an Act of God.
Smoke from the volcano caused countless flights to be canceled.
The Rolling Stone correspondent was stuck in Paris.
Embedded there, he hung around with talkative drinkers.
They revealed stuff while forgetting it was being told to a reporter.
He wrote in his article what they had said.
The fact checkers verified those statements.
The article was shown to Barack Obama.
Whether he fired McChrystal or didn't, Republicans would criticize.
The president fired the general, ultimately due to an Act of God.
geez.
Do you remember when the units from Fort Steward were complaining to the media about being sent to Iraq instead of going home from their deployment for training in the middle east (I forget if they were training in Turkey, Egypt or somewhere like that). Anyway, those soldiers got in trouble for voicing their opinions. All military members know that they cannot do what the general and his staff did. I too think that he let his ego get in the way of his good sense.
Some mocked the DOMINO THEORY in Vietnam, but don't realize that this is another Domino in the line. The international trust that we lost to finish what we started has re-defined our world position. Like animals with an aging "alpha male", once weakness is visible the contenders start circling and probing for the opportunity to strike.
By the way the US never lost a major battle in Vietnam. When we left the North Vietnamese were on the verge of surrender according to the diary of their military commander. Hundreds of thousands of Western sympathizers lost their lives as a result of that withdrawal...and it was the Progressives that gave the Vietcong support needed to persevere. It was the Left that defeated our soldiers in Vietnam.
Of course, in his usual manner, his used the situation to alter his 'turn-tail and abandon plan' to one that is based on "conditions on the ground". We know this because he said it was not a change on the plan.
Tell me, what exactly was the plan of the bunch that got us into this in the first place?
As long as we stay in two (yes two!) useless Bush wars, draining lives and money, while our nation fails to extend unemployment benefits for the desperate, then our nation's soul is about to be destroyed on a false altar of austerity.