Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been ordered to Washington today to explain his remarks in Rolling Stone magazine about his disappointment in President Barack Obama and the administration on the current handling of the Afghanistan war.
Just before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Gen. Eric Shinseki pointed out to the Senate Armed Services Committee that we needed 300,000 troops to stabilize Iraq, and for his views he was forced into retirement.
In April 1951, President Harry Truman removed Gen. Douglas MacArthur from his command of U.N. forces in Korea. It appeared Gen. MacArthur did not approve of President Truman’s handling of the Korean war at that time. Here we are some 60 years later, still being threatened by North Korea on a daily basis of a looming war.
Why do we have generals if we are not going to listen to them? History repeats itself.
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