{"id":29812,"date":"2012-05-04T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2012-05-04T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:06:56","slug":"panetta-to-warn-troops-at-benning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29812","title":{"rendered":"Panetta to scold troops at Benning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> is reporting that Leon Panetta, the guy who spends $32,000 every weekend to be at his comfortable California home, is about to lecture the troops about self-discipline today at Fort Benning. In the wake of the media’s manufactured outrage about the “uriNation videos”, the LA Times’ “war trophy” photos, the burning of defiled Korans, and, oh, what else, Big Defense is wringing their hands, not about how to successfully win wars, but rather how to win the media;<\/p>\n

Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has expressed concern about the impact that those incidents have had on the war, according to a senior defense official. Allen believes that a number of major setbacks in the past six months have resulted from moral, not operational, failures, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments.<\/p>\n

Insurgents have used the incidents to incite violence and undermine U.S. efforts to win over the Afghan people, considered critical to counterterrorism operations. The incidents have reinforced the perception of Americans as unfriendly or occupying forces who do not understand the culture or the religion of the people they are supposed to protect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, because the Taliban and al Qaeda were ready to surrender until they saw the UriNation video or the LA Times’ photo stream. They’ve been sitting around twiddling their thumbs wondering what they could be outraged about until US troops gave them a reason to fight us.<\/p>\n

“Maybe we’ve gotten overconfident and maybe we’ve gotten a little bit comfortable in our young leaders,” Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. “Realizing that they are young, they don’t have a lot of experiences. We have to continue to assist them so they understand what is expected of them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, maybe the incidents have been so rare that the “young leaders” have actually been doing their jobs. A total of nine people were found to have participated in these so-called scandals. Nine out of the eighty-nine thousand troops stationed in Afghanistan. So they’re going to scold the majority of the troops for what a very few did. That makes complete sense. Or something.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the majority of “young leaders” know exactly what they’re doing. If Big Defense spent more time thinking and acting on a good strategy to win the war, winning the media would just happen naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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