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8 months ago

in Another Year’s Worth Of Gates? on The Washington Independent
"shunting aside his best military advice in favor of his ideologically-driven schemes"

It is the constitutionally mandated task of the civilian leadership, focussed in the person of the President, acting as Commander in Chief to guide the military, not the other way around. This country was built on ideologically-driven schemes, by Jove! and sometimes it takes one ideologically-driven scheme to correct a preceding one.

Anyone who is actively in the military and undermines the leadership of the President in the media does so at some risk to their career in the military, at the least, as we saw in the case of dissenters to the war at times in the past 5 years.
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