General Peter Pace, steadfast (if slightly overly political) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has now been thrown under the proverbial bus. Pace, who declined to resign, saying he did not want anyone in his command to “think –ever- that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield,†apparently isn’t worth fighting the Democrat controlled Senate –at least in the mind of US Sec. Def. Robert Gates.
Instead of Pace, Gates intends to replace General Pace with Adm. Michael Mullen. Or to restate, in the middle of the largest US ground war since WWII, the current administration is opting to “Go Navy.â€
While Pace is certainly not the ideal Chairman, it is an inexcusable act of political cowardice for the Bush administration to turn their backs on him after only a year and a half at the helm. Heck, even the President gets four years to prove sink or swim.
How does that tie in to Democrat prophesies? Well, they’ve said all along that Iraq is another Vietnam, and they’re damn well going to make it one. Politicians fighting wars is a little like engineers doing assembly: in theory it’d be fine, but in practice it just doesn’t seem to work. How can a law expert or an over glorified face man (like Harry Reid) really have operational control over someone who has made the military sciences their life’s work?
Yup, we’ll be lucky if we ever win another conflict. We’re too impatient to stay the course, our leaders cave-in to political pressure, and we let vote-seekers’ polemic override the opinions of experts.
David Dalton is a disabled veteran residing in the greater metro-Atlanta area while finishing up his teaching degree.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackFrom a Marine Corps VietNam vet: AMEN!
David Dalton needs to stop pretending that the democrats are running the Iraq War – they aren’t.
This is a GOP adventure, through and through, and it is the Republican party hacks that need to be held accountable – not Harry Reid.
And I, too, am a Marine Corps veteran: Desert Shield/Storm.
Please visit my anti-war website, http://www.shockedandawful.com
Del Wasso,
Did you read the article or just post based on the title? Either way, I stand by what I wrote, and while the Democrats may or may not be running the war, they’ve certainly been less than useful (as a general statement) to the professional portion of the Armed Forces.
However, while we’re speaking about Reid’s Raiders (the Democrats) why don’t we look back at the proposed Draft legislation from the beginning of the war. Who co-sponsored that again? If you said. “A) All Democrats” you’re right. Despite EVERYONE else saying they didn’t want a draft, they introduced the bill anyway. On my side of the tracks that’s called “trying to run the show.” That’s not even mentioning the constant “quagmire” rhetoric or campaigning with MTV intended to alienate the youth -“Here’s your official MTV Draft Card.”
I appreciate your service and your choice to exercise an opinion. I strongly disagree with the position you’ve taken, but that’s just life I suppose.
David, just ignore Del Wasso.
He is an internet forum TROLL that posts antagonistic replies for the sake of advertising his website and seperating himself from the pack as a Democratic Super Patriot.
http://www.rrstarforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=3988
And you, Johnny, are an internet stalker…
Hell-bent on maligning anyone who doesn’t agree with your twisted brand of politics.
Don’t you have anything else to do, other than follow me throughout the net?
Why aren’t you in Iraq, hero?
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