{"id":188613,"date":"2010-08-24T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/fire-him-now\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T01:03:00","slug":"fire-him-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/fire-him-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Him Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that Marine Corps Commandant is retiring in just a few months, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-11078966\">he needs to be fired right now<\/a>, and lose his pension:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A senior US general has warned President Barack Obama&#8217;s deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>US General James Conway, head of the US Marine Corps, said the deadline was &#8220;giving our enemy sustenance&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, unlike McCrystal, this isn&#8217;t staffers, or the general, denigrating POTUS, this is something far worse.   This is a Douglas McCarthur on Korea moment.<\/p>\n<p>This was not an inadvertent slip, this was a deliberate statement made at a Pentagon press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I would suggest that a criminal investigation of insubordination is called for.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Obama to man up on this one, but the Pentagon has become increasingly hostile to the concept of civilian authority, and this needs to be ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that Marine Corps Commandant is retiring in just a few months, but he needs to be fired right now, and lose his pension: A senior US general has warned President Barack Obama&#8217;s deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. US General James Conway, head of the US Marine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970,1006,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption","category-military","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}