"There is nothing going on today in Washington that would give us hope."
A sad statement from a former general.
What do you do when you create a mess and can't fix it? Naturally, you wish you had never created the mess in the first place (although I question if that's true for our current government). You try to keep the mess from getting more out of hand, but at what cost? If you "cut and run" you have to the face the consequences of the mess you created, but is there a reasonable alternative? It's hard to ask others to help you control your mess, so in many ways that option is off the table.
I fail to see a good option, but am afraid the administration will keep trying to find one until the next election to avoid admitting failure. Once again, political power will trump human life.
"Sanchez, who retired in 2006, said it was his duty to obey orders and not object publicly when he was on active duty, but now that he is retired he has an obligation to speak out." If it's not his duty to object publicly while on active duty, whose duty is it? I would think the one person with authority to object would be a general who is on the ground watching the administration make this mess. Anytime anyone else has objected, Bush has called upon the generals to offer an assessment and they have always tried to spin things positively.
I'm glad the general has offered the American people a true assessment now, but where was this rhetoric before? Then again, if he had offered this assessment while he was general, the administration would have sent a different general in. Hanging on to the White House is much more important that facing facts.
What do you do when you create a mess and can't fix it? Naturally, you wish you had never created the mess in the first place (although I question if that's true for our current government). You try to keep the mess from getting more out of hand, but at what cost? If you "cut and run" you have to the face the consequences of the mess you created, but is there a reasonable alternative? It's hard to ask others to help you control your mess, so in many ways that option is off the table.
I fail to see a good option, but am afraid the administration will keep trying to find one until the next election to avoid admitting failure. Once again, political power will trump human life.
"Sanchez, who retired in 2006, said it was his duty to obey orders and not object publicly when he was on active duty, but now that he is retired he has an obligation to speak out." If it's not his duty to object publicly while on active duty, whose duty is it? I would think the one person with authority to object would be a general who is on the ground watching the administration make this mess. Anytime anyone else has objected, Bush has called upon the generals to offer an assessment and they have always tried to spin things positively.
I'm glad the general has offered the American people a true assessment now, but where was this rhetoric before? Then again, if he had offered this assessment while he was general, the administration would have sent a different general in. Hanging on to the White House is much more important that facing facts.
posted by teirney at 7:33 AM
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