Imaho1944:  What, are you crazy?
  More violent overthrow using more violence yet?  Let me enlighten you:  Violence leads to more violence, and the only thing that will stop it is nonviolence. Period. Zilch.  None.  Nada.
  Exhibits of rabid testosterone like your last post are the problem, not the solution.

Here is an interesting analysis for anyone who believe McCrystal just wanted a good ‘honest’ war.

‘For General McChrystal, who took command of the Afghan operation last year, that belief is in COIN or counterinsurgency doctrine (adherents have been dubbed COINdinistas ), described in Rolling Stone as the “new gospel of the Pentagon brass.” COIN emphasizes massive ground forces combined with a deep engagement with the local population to try to win a war. It is a massive undertaking far beyond the scope of what the military traditionally does. Critics believe COIN is impractical if not impossible to achieve, and politically untenable at a time when the American public would like to see ground forces out of Afghanistan in a few years, not a few decades.’
HP

As I lay me down to sleep, I pray the corp my soul will keep, until I can unfold my bulging billifold, and give the corp its dueful keep—-until I can grab my dirk and slash their evil, fucking throat!!!  The Romanovs learned their lesson in Russia, at the wrong end of the rope.  Is there some reason this couldn’t happen here?  Perhaps we set our sights too low.

Good riddance for the outgoing general and another, hopefully, good riddance for the incoming one!

In my book all military people, from top generals down, are symbols of evil military-industrial complexes and symbols of wars and warmongering.

Nations that spend much of its national treasure to produce generals and soldiers along with their weapons of mass destruction will proportionately loose the sense of peace and security that non-military entities enjoy.

Military, in my book, represents the cult of death since they are trained to kill and be ready to be killed.The glory of soldiery is at best always overrated and at worst a false claim and an evil vocation.

Only a spontaneous resistant movement to defend the homeland within its borders if attacked is a legitimate and moral force of fighting men and women who deserve to be called “noble warriors.”

Gerard and TropicGirl:

Your comments are, as I see them, dead on the truth.  The USA is destined, unless wisdom prevails, to lie in the Graveyard of Empires that Afghanistan has been for so long.  Talk about a quagmire?  ya

What do you mean by “high-minded”? I simply said that he may prefer a real
honest war than a government drug-running farce, like many of the military
do. He is not above killing people and lying about it, WHEN ASKED TO, WHICH
HE NO DOUBT WAS, but it could be that he would justify it for a real war, not a
drug-running operation.

Maybe it is highminded to some. You either win a war or you leave. You don’t
drain the blood of innocent people and our soldiers for illegal goals that you
have no intention of attaining head-on.

Truth is, there is a lot of evidence among those in the military who actually can
see the drug-running operation in Afghanistan, that they are standing up
against it, refusing to be used in this way.

But make no mistake, the Afghanistans are a formidable people, not like Iraqis.
They don’t like being slaughtered. Betray Us will have to man-up against troops
that hate him and resent being used for fake wars.

A lot of what is going on at the Mexican border I blame Petreus for. Some, such
as myself, feel that the drug wars are not between the cartels but actually
BETWEEN the joint Mexican-American drug government drug runners AND the
cartels. Just wanting the money, like Afghanistan heroin. To fund more secret
stuff and the banks.

This is Betray-Us’s kind of scene. It may be his last, hopefully, as it
degenerates into shame on us all. And O-Devious knows exactly what is going
on.

Out with the bad old, and in with the bad older.
I heard some of Obama’s comments, live - reminded me of Bush in re terrorists.

Obviously, McChrystal is immature, tired out and overwrought.  No person in command of himself would get into this kind of stupid and damaging situation. 

The larger question is, of course, how much longer is this (also stupid) war going to continue before Obama sees an alternative that will enhance U.S. image internationally as well as provide tens of thousands of peacetime jobs for those collecting money from the Pentagon’s gold mine. 

And a reminder just in case:  The minerals in the hills belong to Afghanistan people, not to international corporations.  They should remain in the hills where they cannot be used to make money for corporations.  Let Afghanistan develop itself, even though it might take a hundred years.  We have more than enough to do at home, minding our own affairs.  Feed the hungry.  Care for the sick. Educate the undereducated.  Reform the Fed.  Regulate the corporations. Develop clean energy sources.  Fix the worn-out roads, bridges and hospitals/schools/public buildings.  What have I left out?  Ah, yes.  Restore habeas corpus and encourage community organizing and citizen action.

In July we are planning to begin to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan. Now that David Petraeus has replaced McChrystal he’ll have a very difficult task. Here’s one problem of many he will have to address according to Al Jazeera English. Money being paid to Afghan firms providing security to US supply convoys is ending up in the pockets of the Afghan warlords and corrupt officials. Congressional investigators say some money may even be finding its way into the hands of the Taliban.
http://www.newslook.com/videos/222768-us-logistics-funds-aiding-taliban?autoplay=true

Learn about McChrystal’s history with JSOC.  It’s about time this psychopath was booted.  Hopefully, many more of his fellow travelers will follow.

tropicgirl

Why do you believe that McCrystal is high minded?  I’ve never seen or heard evidence of that.

The “war” that never was a war, is lost.

The anti-war movement will be now coming from the military. They are no
peaceniks, but they are tired of being used as drug-runners, torturers, and CIA
dogs.

The military is for winning just wars. Obama blinked.

Here comes the next disaster from Betray-Us. He doesn’t mind chewing up our
boys and girls for big interests.

Call McChrystal what you want. He is no innocent. He did what he was asked to
do, no doubt. But he does not appear to have a stomach for fake wars, or
running drugs for the government on the backs of our kids.