{"id":30057,"date":"2012-05-21T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30057"},"modified":"2012-05-21T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:38:50","slug":"that-war-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30057","title":{"rendered":"That war thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff sends us a link to Politico<\/a> in which someone is trying to campaign using the troops once again. <\/p>\n

Gen. John Allen, Obama\u2019s top commander in Afghanistan, said the idea that Obama is bucking his commanders, put forth by Romney and some other Republicans, simply isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no daylight \u2026 between the commanders on the ground and the commander-in-chief,\u201d Allen told reporters Sunday. \u201cI was asked whether I could execute [Obama\u2019s withdrawal] plan, and I told [him] that I can.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? What did they expect him to say? Did they think he’d pull a Stan McCrystal and let out a tirade of expletives about the president’s policy? Meanwhile, Old Trooper sends us a link to a Daily Beast<\/a> article about CentCom Commander Gen. James Mattis planning for the next war.<\/p>\n

Mattis wanted to send a third aircraft-carrier group to the Persian Gulf earlier this year, The Daily Beast has exclusively learned, in what would have been a massive show of force at a time when Iranian military commanders were publicly threatening to sink American ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The four-star Marine Corps general and CentCom commander believed the display could have deterred Iran from further escalating tensions, according to U.S. military officials familiar with his thinking.<\/p>\n

But the president wanted to focus military resources on new priorities like China, and Mattis was told a third carrier group was not available to be deployed to the Gulf.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems like not all of his commanders are in synch with the president as Politico and General Allen would have us believe. We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979 and we haven’t had a president willing to accept that reality. The Iranians have been supporting every one of our enemies materially over the past eleven years and they’ve made inroads into our backyard in South America. Between Obama’s worldview of a Chinese opponent and Mattis’ Islamic Republic scenario, which is more likely to explode first? Carrier group presence in the Persian\/Arabian Gulf is more likely to deter a war with Iran than have an effect on China.<\/p>\n

But the Obama plan is less likely to cost as much in the short term as Mattis’. <\/p>\n

Well, except in American lives when the balloon inevitably goes up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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