General McCrystal to Make Comeback???!!!...dear god...

[DemocracyInaction]

I almost lost my cookies this a.m. when I heard Bob Woodward state that McCrystal will be "making a comeback" (but would not fill in any details). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to fill in the blank here. Ten to one, this asshole is going to be the Tea Party pushed candidate for prez in 2012! Unfortunately, this will feed right into the "Amurekan" people's rage at the lack of economic recovery because it will be very easy to hate other countries and declare war on them as the answer to their lousy lives. Make no mistake, they ARE ready to put this country in the hands of the military--and now I know how it has a chance to come about. We also WILL have a draft (I've heard the repukes in the last few months start to raise that issue again because of how shot our military is and the need to build it back up). So, you "youngins" who can't get off your butt to go out and vote this time might want to reconsider. If you don't defeat these people now, you have one lousy future ahead of you.

[oceanman]

1. McCrystal

One thing I can never figure out is why the current upper echelon of the military's officers are treated with such deference. The guys running the show are the survivors of the Bush administrations 'purges' of these ranks, the guys that didn't question the Bush administration and/or were wholly in favor of the 'adventures' in the Middle East - if anyone remembers, the guys who questioned these policies were essentially forced to retire or removed from decision making positions. There doesn't seem to be any other opinions expressed from the military except 'go for it'. I realize the military is not a democratic institution by any any means, but when it comes to gov't policy it seems the military has way too much say in the continuation of these wars versus the civilian gov't types, in particular those in Afghanistan, whom as I recall were against the expansion of that war, and it seems, totally ignored. This has become a 'fool's errand' and the lessons of the Soviets and the British attempts to subjugate these regions, not to mention our own attempt to do the same in Viet Nam, completely forgotten.

[CTyankee]

2. Well, for starters he's teaching a seminar grad class here at Yale.

He and Tony Blair will overlap in their teaching in New Haven this fall....