Originally Posted by
moderate democrat
no one has ever said that Obama did not LISTEN to Petraeus...only that, after listening to him, he made the sort of executive decisions that Commanders in Chief are SUPPOSED to make... and decided that he wanted to go on ahead with his accelerated timetable. Generals KNOW that they are NOT politicians, nor even statemen, but warriors. THey give the national command authority their best advice and then they follow orders. It is exactly how it is supposed to happen. Military men have played tough with CinC's before... MacArthur and Truman, for instance...but civilian authority MUST be maintained. If the JCS resigns en masse, I can guarantee that there are a host of eminently well qualified three and four star officers who would gladly take their places.