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Just asking some of his interviews seem a little on our side like the gun control.Had anyone seen articles on his politics ?
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Mojo2
(332 posts)I heard him interviewed, he is surely not a right wing nut. He would not come out and support a overhaul of the US gun laws, as he stated that he wanted to not take a political stance, but he indicated that no one outside of the armed forces should have access to military grade assault weapons.
Mass
(27,315 posts)As long as they do not need to be elected, at least. Joe Scarborough is a good example.
When they have to run, of course, the cower to the NRA.
TwilightGardener
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CincyDem
(6,390 posts)...in several situations since his retirement, I was genuinely surprised by his compassion. I know that sounds weird talking about ex-military leadership but the time/energy he has invested in helping support the families of injured vets is pretty amazing. And unlike most ex-military who go for the $$$ in media and/or defense industry, he's using his post service time working with several other ex-military guys developing leadership training programs for business and public-sector employees. I don't know this for fact but I've heard others say that his group doesn't even take training work contracts from defense contractors. Not sure why.
There is nothing about him even in casual conversations with small groups that is even close to "wing-nut". Never talked politics so I have no "truth" about his affiliation or voting record BUT...he doesn't feel like any modern day republican I know.
If he's republican, he's part of that virtually extinct rational wing of the party. Wouldn't surprise me if he falls into "I didn't leave the republican party, the republican party left me" group.
think
(11,641 posts)Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:22 By Dina Rasor, Truthout | Solutions Column
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After the article appeared, President Obama brought McChrystal back from Afghanistan and promptly relieved him from duty. In Hastings' book, The Operators, he discussed how surprised the military was that Obama had, in abrupt Truman fashion, relieved this general who had spent his career promoting himself. McChrystal and his aides had been telling Hastings that Obama was a weak leader and a wimp (calling him just an orator, not a leader). They got caught up in their arrogance and met the same fate as General MacArthur.
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He also brought along former military men who worked for him into his new McChrystal Group, including Dave Silverman, a former Navy Seal who was on of his top aides in Afghanistan and was one of the staff that was the most derogatory about the president, and Sgt. Maj. Mike Hall, who had worked with McChrystal during a good portion of his career. Based on their web site's bragging about their skill sets, which emphasizes that they have the military discipline and methods to make companies work, they show no shame or discipline, and not only about what they did and said about the commander in chief. Even though our troops have worked hard and creatively in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the leadership of several of the top generals, including McChrystal, has been ineffective and chaotic. Many of these top commanders spent more time with military and civilian public relations staff to make them darlings of the news media and burnish their "brand" to be promoted to the next level.
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/8175-generals-who-dont-just-fade-away-the-newest-in-self-dealing-maneuvers
LiberalFighter
(51,104 posts)to make companies work. If businesses truly believed then all of the returning vets would be snatched up by them instead of many of them lingering around unemployed or under employed.
There are skill sets that translate to the business community but not generally in the managerial side IMO. If they were involved in emergency medical that would be good up to a point. If it was in anything involved in computer skills that should give help them out in obtaining a job related to that. Etc. If I was a business person I would be more inclined to hire someone further on down the chain of command than an egotistical weasel dick.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)The good ones tend to keep their politics to themselves.
And unlike the Chickhawk Bridgade in Congress, he knows what it's like to have people shooting at you -- and that tends to give you less of a hard-on for sending people into combat.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)What he is is very ambitious.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Remember that? That wasn'tthe only reason, though.
Last fall, with his top general calling for more troops, Obama launched a three-month review to re-evaluate the strategy in Afghanistan. "I found that time painful," McChrystal tells me in one of several lengthy interviews. "I was selling an unsellable position." For the general, it was a crash course in Beltway politics – a battle that pitted him against experienced Washington insiders like Vice President Biden, who argued that a prolonged counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan would plunge America into a military quagmire without weakening international terrorist networks. "The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. "The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622#ixzz2IGfmFwM5
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