A General Disgrace

That’s the way our generals have been behaving lately.  Petraeus apparently collapsing at a senate hearing - although I listened to the halting, mumbling, monotoneist questioning by John McCain myself and I too collapsed.  I think it was some kind of a hypnotic trance.

Now the Runaway General, McChrystal breaking though the no-no’s of  the military, actually the Know-No’s.  He certainly knows better than to do what he just did and if he didn’t know he should be shot.  Is he dumb?  Probably not.  He’s probably a pretty sharp guy who has come a long way by using his smarts and his puff.  So - did he have something in mind?

Well, the war is not going well.  Like most wars it is going somewhere else other than where it was supposed to go.  It has just recently become America’s longest war in its history.  Casualties are starting to soar.  Iraq is spinning in and out of “control?”.  Iran is smugly confident, and Israel is wild-eyed.  Something is going to happen soon.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party  is boiling and bubbling with excitement over the possibility of kicking Obama out of the White house in 2012.  They are trying to set up their new presidential guy.  They have a lot of good presidential timber to choose from - like, well, Mitch McConnel, Boehner, Kyle, Cantor, Palin, Romney, Barbour, Paul or Paul, Santorum, Perry (if he hasn’t succeeded by then), Gingrich, Jindal, Armey, Coburn, Ney,  or . . . hmmm Ensign?, or Sanford?, well . . . HEY, how about McChrystal! WOW.  Do you suppose?  And if Obama fires him then - then - then - the plot thickens, contrast happens, sides are drawn up, intelligence is implied, and . . . Sara Palin gets a new guy to run with - somebody who couldn’t finish his job either.

So.  McChrystal will probably offer his resignation when he meets Obama.  What if Obama accepts it, puts it in his shirt pocket, and sends McCrystal back to do his job? The drawdown (if it does happen) will run through 2011 and into 2012, and Obama will be the greater man to come out of this showdown.  Will this happen?  Stand by - breaking news is coming in now.  Obama’s pretty sharp too, so be prepared to be amazed.