{"id":14818,"date":"2009-10-03T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2009-10-03T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T13:07:15","slug":"our-changing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14818","title":{"rendered":"Our changing times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning we awaken to the Washington Post’s Bruce Ackerman pronouncing that “Generals Shouldn’t Disagree in Public With the Commander in Chief<\/a>“. Ackerman writes;<\/p>\n

As commanding general in Afghanistan, McChrystal has no business making such public pronouncements. Under law, he doesn’t have the right to attend the National Security Council as it decides our strategy. To the contrary, the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 explicitly names the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the National Security Council’s exclusive military adviser. If the president wanted McChrystal’s advice, he was perfectly free to ask him to accompany Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, when the council held its first meeting on Afghanistan this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a little bit different than the article the Post ran in December 2006 when they proudly announced that “White House, Joint Chiefs At Odds on Adding Troops<\/a>” – no warning that generals shouldn’t publicly disagree with the president when the president is Bush.<\/p>\n

A senior administration official said it is “too simplistic” to say the surge question has broken down into a fight between the White House and the Pentagon, but the official acknowledged that the military has questioned the option. “Of course, military leadership is going to be focused on the mission — what you’re trying to accomplish, the ramifications it would have on broader issues in terms of manpower and strength and all that,” the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leftist blogs<\/a> have demanded McChrystal resign –<\/p>\n

General McChrystal’s breach has been bad enough to deserve peremptory dismissal<\/p>\n

And that’s what I think he should get — though I haven’t seen much protest or even much awareness of his breach of protocol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Others<\/a> are predicting catastrophe;<\/p>\n

Indeed, we are already seeing the damage that can be done when even a sliver of daylight appears between the views of the President and his military commander.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So in these changing times, Generals should now shut up and not advocate for the successful completion of their mission when just a scant few years ago they were celebrated as media stars when they publicly disagreed with the president. I wonder why things have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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