May 6, 2011 - 2:41 pm
The Prez and Veep gave out medals today to the Special Forces that carried out the bin Laden operation. Entirely appropriate and most welcome. US Special Forces are magnificent, as are the other members of our amazing volunteer military.
While they are at it, they should pin a medal on the chest of General Stanley McChrystal. He organized that Special Forces team, after all. So he’s entitled.
He’s magnificent too.
Probably give himself a medal for making such a gutsy call.
Ditto on the McChrystal medal.
I was an Air Force officer working with (then) BGen McChrystal’s staff in XVIII ABN Corps at Ft Bragg when 9/11 occurred and changed everything for all of us in the military. He was awesome then, and certainly remains so to this day.
Please. Come on, Ledeen.
You want to pin a medal on the chest of a man who allowed a known leftist sympathizer from Rolling Stone magazine to hang around the General and his staff for months while speaking extemporaneously and openly?
The General might be magnificent. Smart he is not. And I rue the day when we start pinning medals on dumb-asses.
What medal? Why not Pat Tillman’s tarnished Silver Star? Gen. McChrystal supervised the writing of that fraudulent citation with altered witness statements. By all accounts McChrystal was a good leader, but his actions 7 years ago are still putting the Tillman family through grief.
And the Rolling Stan statements was a pretext. If you read between the lines of Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars’ it certainly appears that he was fired primarily for not showing his promised progress with his COIN strategy (same for Pretreaus).
To learn more, I’d suggest Mary Tillman’s book “Boots on the Ground by Dusk” (revised paperback edition with a new forward at blurb.com), Jon Krakauer’s paperback edition “Where Men Win Glory” (although a flawed bio, it has details on McChrystal’s role in the Army’s cover-up), the fine documentary “The Tillman Story,” or http://www.feralfirefighter.blogspot.com