While so-called smart people are easily distracted with bread and circuses, the Chicago Way seems to be running the Obama administration. They don’t give you a road map to figure out what’s going on underneath the radar. You have to follow the bread crumbs.
You have a situation where Egypt’s top generals have recently been replaced, and Turkish generals have been replaced, and now in the USA you have honorable senior military officers removed.
Is there an effort to do the same in the USA by discrediting highly competent officers? Would it make it easier for example, to downsize the military by discrediting senior people? Other well known people including some previous presidents have recently done far worse than Gen. Petraeus, but the media apparently didn’t think too much was wrong in their cases, and they survived bigger and better than ever. Salacious, titillating stories make the headlines. Too many coincidences. Meanwhile 2 months later, no answers on why 4 dedicated Americans died in Benghazi while making frantic calls for help followed in real time. Seven hours fighting for your life and no help? How long would it have taken a jet to at least buzz the terrorists? Forty-five minutes? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Apparently the media have their priorities backwards. Meanwhile distraction after distraction are fed to the media. What’s the real story?
Transformation is well underway…and with 4 more years, most agencies will probably have an overabundance of left wingers in charge, producing a kleptocracy worthy of Zimbabwe. $16 trillion in debt is basically treated as monopoly money….an afterthought. Americans have probably got 2 years to restore sanity, not 4 years. That means getting better organized sooner rather than later.
How does the Chicago Way GOTV operate? The end justifies the means?
One would hope it was all just a dream and people were really sincere about solving critical problems instead of acting like political hacks while the sheep have the wool constantly pulled over their eyes. Time is quickly running out before the public loses their faith in politicians.
Think Stalin also. Many other dictatorships have used this same tactic.
Installing John f****ng Kerry as Sec Def will drive out any remaining stragglers. Only ones remaining would be the most craven of all.
– knows what Evil lurks in the hearts of Men?
This is humiliating for all the good men and women in the military, and davastating for those who have to risc their lives under the dangerous wrong COIN strategy, Petraeus stood for.
Obama made the most deadly move he could to hurt the spirit of those who believe in honour and love their country. And those Generals helped him to do so. Obama knows his enemy,as he reigns his enemy.
A nightmare.
This is propaganda in it’s highest form.
Wow, what a completely unhelpful post. Those guys are honorable? Having an affair and exposing yourself to blackmail as CIA chief is honorable? Not in my book. This silly purge talk distracts from the real issues and the real dangers posed by Obama. Shame on you. The generals who resigned worked hand in glove with Obama for years. They eagerly pursued Obama policies for years and they were promoted by Obama. If they were honorable, they would have resigned rather than engage in unconstitutional wars all over the globe. But they didn’t. Those officers are not honorable, they are a disgrace. There was one honorable officer who refused to serve Obama. Only one. Get it right and stop writing idiotic and false propaganda. Do you think you can lie better than the commies?
The military is top heavy with brass. It could use a little culling. But not this way.
My kid is in the infantry. The word has already come down. “Prepare yourself for private life. Few if any of you will be in the army after you present term of service expires.”
Bread crumbs?
How about a different image. Maybe a tsunami, lightening bolt, or foghorn. Anybody who believes that the scandals are random events that have come randomly to the light of day is about as bright as our brave republican ruling class.