Ray Starmann, US Defense Watch: We were just following orders – The Joint Chiefs and the War with ISIS
Across the world, the War with ISIS is exploding; in Paris, Brussels, in the Middle East and at the US/Mexican border. ISIS continues to attack, attack, attack, following George Patton’s motto of “l’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace (audacity, audacity, always audacity).
While the world seems to be continually shocked by one ISIS atrocity after another, in the White House, one thing is crystal clear, President Obama has chosen to fight rising seas and disappearing glaciers before taking the fight to the marauding maniacal murderers of ISIS.
While the President has been pelted for two weeks for having no strategy to fight ISIS, no one in the press has mentioned the architects of the war against ISIS, the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Oh, those guys…
Those guys…
WNU Editor: A brutal commentary .... read it all.
Hat Tip to Rantburg for the above post.
In the 50s we had the Revolt of the Admirals.
ReplyDeleteIf we had something like that today, the WaPo, the NYT, the LA Times, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the 3 networks, CNN & MSLSD would go after them. The press would drown it out with noise. Any news story they don't like will be drowned out by the next mass murder, the next terrorists attack or the next tragedy de jure.
Those news stories are important to but any one category of news story another category. Our press is infamous for this.
Our press is so infamous for this that specialty blogs like this one.
Besides a revolt we could have resignations/retirements or mass retirements.
Retirement takes planning. A network of contacts so you have a civilian job. I dare say many (if not all) general staff have such contacts in the main. Should they maximize their financial status to the nth degree or take a chance retire at 24 or 28 years and put politicians on notice from time to time, when said politicians are idiots?
My experience in the Canadian Military the Senior Officer Corp are a bunch of Crawlers, all about the career.
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DeleteNor do they come off as particularly committed to an independent Canada. They struck me as having the same mentality of the folks at the CCCE.
DeleteFWIW, Patton used (supposedly), but did
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l’audace." The phrase orginated with
Danton/Fredrick the Great/Napolean.
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Audacity, more audacity.
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CCCE?
ReplyDeleteWhat is that? I'll admit ignorance.
Canadian Council of Chief Executives?
Certified Christian Childbirth Educator
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Okay,
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Just because it is an English acronym and I am a native speaker does not mean I know everything about English.
There are after all 5 "eyes" The University I went to had 4 "English departments", if I remember correctly. Their purposes where slightly different.
One of the department heads was Indian. He said there was no such thing as English. I thought him insane or stupid or something. Then I realized he was right.
Yup. You got if Aizino.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be the BCNI, Business Council on National Issues.
They pretty much run the joint.
Not to be confused with our esteemed Editor's Christian Childbirth Educators. They were recently voted out in favour of the Corporate Controlled Cannabis Enablers.
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