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Originally Posted by retmil46
Oopps, looks like O's hand picked general succumbed to a common ailment to those that do business in high levels in DC - foot in mouth disease.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100622/pl_nm/us_afghanistan
He broke one of the primary rules of military etiquette - you don't badmouth your boss, civilian or military, in public. Won't be surprised if he does get canned. |
Yes. Poindexter, the nickname people give McC behind his back, is a strange duck. He has a strange health regimen, encouraging people to eat only one small-medium meal a day at noon and drink lots of tea like the Afghans do.
He is also remembered as the three-star who rushed to sign the Silver Star for Pat Tillman, but also sent a P-4 memo to selected General officers, indicating through back channels that Tillman may have been killed by friendly fire. He then did nothing to prevent the cover-up, and later sacrificed a couple colonels to pay for it.
This may sound cold, but in my personal opinion, Poindexter is the kind of guy who would help the guard closing the oven door on the crematorium, then say " It wasn't me! So-and-so was doing all the work closing the door, I just happened to be there."
On the other hand, I have nothing but the greatest respect for GEN Petraeus, whom I think, is just trying to figure a way out of this $h!tpile we're in, and go home with minimal losses.
Dump Poindexter and get someone truly focused on the job.
I have to admit though, Richard Holbrooke is an egotistical dork. I saw him in Skopje, Macedonia in 1997-98, I was a peon over there and he was " the President's special envoy" and told that to everyone who would listen. He was Hilary's boy then, too.