US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year “war on terror”

[Jcrowley]

US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year “war on terror”

By Bill Van Auken
19 December 2006

One of the Pentagon’s senior uniformed strategists warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle.

The remarks were made by Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism.” He made them in an exclusive interview with the Washington Times, the right-wing daily owned by the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

“We’re in a generational war,” he told the paper. “You can try and fight the enemy where they are and where they’re attacking you, or prevent them and defend your own homeland,” he said. “But that’s not enough to stop it.”

The Washington Times went on to report, “Gen. Schissler said he is concerned that Washington politics is weakening the will of the nation.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/gene-d19.shtml

[ixion]

1. people like this are bat-sh*t crazy, and shouldn't be allowed to be in power, IMO

statements like that reflect a fundamental paranoid psychosis, and should not be treated as rational observation, in my opinion, because a) it talks about fighting an abstract concept for the next 100 years (another hundred-year war, anyone?); and b) it misses the point that the so-called 'War on Terror' has actually created MORE terrorism that it has eradicated, and is therefore contrarian, tautological and (most importantly) delusional.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Reminds me of atom bomb alerts in the 5th grade;

we all got under desks because the Commies were coming.

Ironically, the radioactive drift from test bombs in Nevada and Utah got more of my peers than the Commies did.

[Junkdrawer]

3. That's future "Chief of Staff" Schissler to you, bub. n/t

[Shipwack]

5. Without a doubt...

I'd guarantee it to happen, especially when Junior does a purge of the Joint Chiefs to get rid of those who aren't on board with him.

[Ino]

4. You can't handle the truth!

another nutjob with his finger on the button

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Oh - Air Force

Wasn't the air force academy taken over by fundaloons? These folks are insane. Luckily we have just put them in charge of vastly dangerous weapons, lots of vastly dangerous weapons.

[nealmhughes]

7. Well, I guess that the Green Zone in Baghdad is our version of Calais...

is al Sadr Joan of Arc then?

What a ridiculous statement from a person who purports to be a general officer.

[obreaslan]

8. That's why we need to disband the government and let the military run the country...

They can do what these wussy politicians are afraid to do. We can't get the job done in the next hundred years with these bastards in D.C. We need to have someone with the guts to drop a nuke on every country in the world that supports these brown peopl...err...uh...terrorists, to be running the show from now on.

:nuke: SCHISSLER FOR MILITARY DICK-TATER!!!!!! :nuke:


:sarcasm:

[leftchick]

9. another fundie crusader

I thought for a minute this would be Boykin. :puke:

[saigon68]

22. Someone said ---BAT SHIT CRAZY

That sums it up

[Clark2008]

10. I read this sentence:

One of the Pentagon’s senior uniformed strategists... as, "one of the Pentagon's senior UNINFORMED strategists..."

Then when I read the rest of the piece, I realized I was actually correct.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. He Thinks Politics is "Weakening The Will Of The Nation"?

I think Schissler is weakening the intellectual capacity of the nation. What a dolt! How do guys like this ever get to be generals?
The Professor

[formercia]

24. Himmler was a chicken farmer

this guy is a ROTC delivery boy.

[formercia]

12. His Bio:

Check out where he went to school.

This guy is a Crusader to the Max.

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9028

[Jcrowley]

14. Equally disconcerting

is the fact that there is little resistance to within Congress to restrain these lunatics and little evidence that a mass movement in the streets is going to stop this insanity.

Fron link:

BRIGADIER GENERAL MARK O. SCHISSLER

Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler is the Deputy Director for the War on Terrorism, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for all aspects of developing, coordinating, refining and assessing U.S. military and national strategies related to the Global War on Terrorism. He routinely provides advice to the Chairman and represents the Joint Staff and the U.S. military at government interagency meetings on a broad scope of issues.

General Schissler was commissioned through Officer Training School and completed undergraduate navigator training in 1981. He served as an instructor, evaluator, chief navigator, executive officer and operations officer. His commands include an airlift squadron, group and wing, as well as two expeditionary air wings. General Schissler was selected for a National Security Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has held assignments on the Air Staff and Joint Staff, including duty as the assistant executive officer to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9028

Probably hangs out with Ralph Peters.

[formercia]

18. The Hundred Year War.

Sounds like something out of the Renaissance.....

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=68296

You might enjoy this thread..

[Warren Stupidity]

25. Fundaloon

"1998 Master of Arts degree in pastoral studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas "

The Air Force is infested and most likely its loyalty compromised by religious zealots.

[unhappycamper]

13. Note to Marko:

Even though you're in the Air Force, a hero like you should grab a gun & join "The Surge." Ride on convoys to show the 'boys' how it's done 'right.'

Go fuck yourself.

[The Stranger]

15. Summon this man for a mental inquest proceeding.

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. 50-100 years

Wrong-o, Batman! The "Global War on Terror" will last for an eternity. There will always be an enemy that falls under the label of terrorist. There will always be a struggle that has advocates for war warning that we must fight for our survival.

Instead of "Global War on Terror", let's just call it what it really is: The Eternal War.

[shadowknows69]

17. Lets call this what it is shall we

it's the 100 year resource war. They've already started the rhetoric with "Can't let Al-Qaeda get control of the oil fields and hold us hostage"

"All is going as I have forseen"
-Emperor Palpatine

[BuyingThyme]

19. Hey Skippy, you already lost that war.

[Roland99]

20. Screw diplomacy and understand the root cause, we need MORE GUNS! MORE BOMBS!!

FUCKING ASSHAT!!!

:mad:

[Infinite Hope]

21. And the 1000 year Reich. n/t

[cemaphonic]

23. Shouldn't high brass have at least a passing familiarity with von Clausewitz?

Wars are instruments of politics, and are always governed by political realities, even in the most militatized societies. Any general that forgets this is in for some unpleasant surprises.

And, of course the 'War on Terror' is a slogan, and not an actual war.

[formercia]

26. It's now the 500 Year War

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=116&topic_id=13646&mesg_id=13646