[Although, I bet he would say the same thing about me... "Who is Yoyo, and I don't care what he thinks."]

However, I am not writing Opeds, either. And I try to make sense when I speak. And I served my country by volunteering to work on the greatest Acre-and-a-Half, Pointy-End-of-the-Spear workspace known to Modern Man.

If the General says, “I need 40,000 more troops, or else.” I say give them to him. He sure knows better than I.

Of course it was. And the answer the General gave to the question he was asked was, as stated in the original post, in support of Obama’s official policy.

Does the radical left expect the General to anticipate Obama turning yellow and cutting and running from Afghanistan before Obama himself can bring himself to do what we all know he wants to do, all his contrary statements notwithstanding?

We’ll be lucky if we can get this turkey out of office before he completely disarms the USA and destroys our economy while allowing every totalitarian rogue regime on the planet to go nuclear on his watch.

“Obama lamented the early retirement of Admiral William Fallon, who has clashed with the Bush administration over its policies toward Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I think it’s a loss,” Obama said. “I think he provided a balanced view of the region. I’m sorry to see him go, but I guess I’m not surprised.”

Obama said that while President Bush has said that he follows the advice of his generals regarding Iraq, when they give the president advice he doesn’t like — cautioning against the War in Iraq, for example — Bush doesn’t listen to them.

“There were generals at the beginning of the conflict that said this is going to require many more troops, will cost us much more … those generals were pushed aside,” Obama said.”

Mmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmm.

2. If you are interested in my views, I’ve probably writted 30 stories on the subject of civil-military relations since 2003 and you’ll see I’ve been consistent.

3. The generals who disagreed with Bush were never subjected to the White House sending out attack Yorkies to the media.

4. The key words with Shinseki are “out of his lane.” His off the wall response, which has been discredited by the facts on the ground, was made in response to a question he was asked unrelated to his testimony. The CSA is not involved in war planning, per se, beyond providing trained and equipped forces to the combatant commander. The fact that Shinseki, who is now grossly mismanaging the VA, wanted to use that hearing to carry out a cheap vendetta against the SecDef who’d essentially fired him should be a badge of shame that he carries till his dying day.

4. Read the articles. McChrystal was defending Obama’s March 27 Afghanistan strategy If the White House has a problem with that maybe they should start attaching a date-time stamp to their policies so everyone knows what the strategy is.

5. Bye.

It would go too far if he were insubordinate or trying to rally political opposition to Obama, But he has done neither.

And for the record, Robinson has been right down the center on this. Just check his statements. You can put any spin on them you want, but the facts are the facts. The key word in the Shinseki criticism is “testimony” as he was before a Congressional panel at the time, unlike McChrytstal who was trying to make policy.

I think this is Obama between a rock and a hard place. Is there any doubt that their hearts(and Obama’s) are on the side of pulling out? What they are having to ask themselves is whether they want to saddle Obama with another defeat, especially given his, er, track record so far. If they do the right thing and give the generals the resources they need it will definitely leave less resources for green jobs(hahahahahaha) and the like.

I think Obama is struggling for three reasons. The cupboard is already bare. The world is alot more complicated than he counted on. We will not sit idly by.