Comments on: Profiles in courage, the “accountability” chapter

By: Casca

Casca — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:59:53 +0000

B2, are you pussyfooting around the realities of minority hires? Loved the USAA line.

By: badbob

badbob — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:28:08 +0000

I ain’t gonna slap him too hard. Personally I wonder whose campaign he’ll join…. Man’s gotta make a living and USAA has already installed it’s latest BOD…….

During that crucial period of OIF Lex summarizes, I’ll always remember a man who looked out of place..sort of like a deer in the headlights look on his face and striving hard to remember his warrior cliches. In others words- little command of his command and no idea how to see milestones nor an endstate. No matter what we command we must have a vision..Even though it may constantly evolve, we must adapt. He never did- possibly he never had what it takes despite his record. Rising to one’s level sorta… Personal impression.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:14:09 +0000

Actually I find a lot of his observations to be dead on target. It’s just that they are incomplete, and as such have to be taken with a *huge* grain of salt. It is ridiculous to talk about the administration making mistakes in the running of the war without also talking about the military leadership (of which Herr Sanchez was a large part) having made mistakes.

And why is this news, exactly?

During what war has it ever been possible to look back and say with pride, “Damn — that was executed flawlessly – every single aspect of our plan worked out EXACTLY as we conceived it”? Wars don’t work that way. Not all the moving parts are under our control, yet he pretends they are. And what is his solution for the twin problems of self-serving partisanship in Congress and an out of control press that have deliberately twisted public opinion against the war? Should the President throw out the Constitution and muzzle the press, throw a few of those recalcitrant jerks in Congress into an airless cell in Gitmo?

Yeah. I didn’t think so.

Lovely 20.20 hindsight with no suggestions as to how things should *practically* have been done differently.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:40:36 +0000

50 years old when he took command in Iraq and a 3-star. Am I wrong in understanding that if he resigned in protest he would not have forfeited his pension? If that is the case how can he look himself in the mirror each morning. What real risk did he have by resigning in protest if what he was seeing was so bad? Compared to the risks his own troops were taking at that time???

I’m not a big fan of the Bush administration by any stretch, but I don’t like Sanchez at all and I have no faith in anything this guy has to say.

Brian

By: ELP

ELP — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:09:17 +0000

It’s nice to pretend to have moral courage after retirement and no threat to the career path.

By: Casca

Casca — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:50:41 +0000

Snort!

A General Officer self-serving? I’m shocked! He’s just having his McNamara moment. May he rot in hell.