Well staring a war will at least give us some stability and vision. We’ll lose it like all the rest.
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Ok, he changed his opinion. What does that do for us?
Nothing. Flynn doesn’t need Congressional approval, correct?
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Well if it makes anyone feel better there are only 1425 days, 12 hours 42 minutes and 19 seconds left until election day 2020. https://days.to/election-day-in-us/2020
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are the days of leaders being people of good character gone? Orwell predicted these days would come and now they are here. A man such as Flynn would never ever had been considered a Leader in the “make America great again” days Trumpet is trumpeting.
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The free market at work. A clinical trial with a very large n followed by the invisible hand of the market to define the interface between the acceptable number of deaths and profit margin. Nirvana.
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Not having served in the military, I always try to be respectful of veterans.
But I have one close colleague who’s dad was career military, and another friend who served for 4 years, and they both said similar things. Generals are complete egotistical assholes.
EDIT: One company I worked for did hire a retired Colonel as a consultant, and he had catch phrase “in the military, we did things right”.
Because the military has no profit and loss statement, he had seemingly no comprehension of scarce financial resources. His advise was completely useless for the private sector, we ended up terminating his contract early.
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I think we can change that adjective from “nearly” to “totally”.
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General McNuttery is the same clown who, back when he was running it, gladly spent about 9 billion tax dollars a year on the “war on drugs” in Columbia. How’d that work out, sir; since we all know that people can no longer buy drugs in the USA. This boob has no credibility and is just another brick in the wall of inertia.
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“Flynn is the best intelligence officer of his generation,” he said at the time. “He and Gen. Stan McCrystal and Dave Petraeus are the reason we haven’t had a dozen 9/11s since then.”
A conspiracy theorist, a war criminal and an Espionage Act violator walk into a bar …
Pardon me while I guffaw into oblivion about McCaffrey’s stellar judgment.
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Yes indeed. All the remaining semi-sane Republicans stumbling around vaguely insisting that somebody should be looking into this … are all apparently without a clue about exactly WHO should be looking into it.
It certainly won’t be the Teapublican Congress or the soon-to-be KKK DOJ. If Trump succeeds in silencing the press, it won’t be them either. Who should it be, General?
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Ugh…you are just discovering this now? Better late than never, I guess. He should have spoken with Powell.
In case everyone has forgotten–from an article about Colin Powell’s hacked emails:
In July emails to his son, he called retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn a “right-wing nutty.”
“I spoke at [Defense Intelligence Agency] last month,” Powell wrote after Flynn spoke at the Republican National Convention. “Flynn got fired as head of DIA. His replacement is a black Marine 3-star. I asked why Flynn got fired. Abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc. He has been and was right-wing nutty every [sic] since. I watched about five minutes on line of his talked [sic] and switched off.” Powell also wondered “how he got that far in the Army.”
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Not to mention maybe people elected to congress and placed on groups quaintly referred to as “oversight committees.” But they, like the professional chroniclers, will be very busy investigating Hillary Clinton for a recipe email she received several years ago.
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Is this one of those examples of “Well, if A finds B disturbing, even though A is disturbing and/or untrustworthy as well that must mean B is really off the rails”?
Not that I really need anyone to confirm the nutcase Flynn is, as he’s given everyone ample proof, adding McCaffrey’s voice doesn’t really make the chorus sweeter.
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Best intelligence but not most intelligent, huh?
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Nope.
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When did McCaffery move here? Go away! If anyone has the inclination, go dig up the article about McCaffery ordering the air attack on the Iraqi columns heading north out of Kuwait and already inside Iraq. It was called a “turkey shoot” - disable the first couple of vehicles in the convoy and the rest are pretty much prevented from going around them to continue. Once this was done, we strafed, rocketed and bombed the convoy for an hour, as I recall. Yes, we destroyed a good bit of Iraqi military hardware, but we also murdered hundreds if not thousands of Iraqis heading home after the cease-fire and surrender had been agreed to.
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He is referring to his service in Iraq when he served as the intelligence officer for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) under Gen. McChrystal. By all accounts what he/they did was very innovative and successful. These are the guys who destroyed much of the Zarqawi network. He deserves his share of the credit for that.
I read one account which attributes Flynn;s success to the fact that McChrystal surrounded Flynn with no-nonsense subordinates who could and would vigorously push back on all Flynn’s over the top ideas. Several years later, when Flynn gets command of DIA, he is the unchalleged boss and no one is keeping him in check. All his bad impulses come out, and that is the guy we see today. Incredibly talented in one given situation. A dangerous fuck-up in quite another situation.
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There are journalists publishing these very relevant stories. Problem is they have the audacity to use big words and the analysis takes a few paragraphs. Like their new leader, why would Americans read? It’s too hard.
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“Flynn is the best intelligence officer of his generation,” he said at the time. “He and Gen. Stan McCrystal and Dave Petraeus are the reason we haven’t had a dozen 9/11s since then.”
Where were these 2 generals on 9-10-2001?
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Military should be familiar with this. While there’s no P/L, scarce and finite resources is a very big issue in war time.
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