I Thought I Might Have To Get Off the Glenn Beck Bus.

by Little Miss Attila on November 25, 2009

And now is the moment.

(Not that I’ve ever watched him. I’ve listened to him a little, and I’ve read his books. I’ll probably continue to do that, as well—because they are charming and informative.)

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smitty November 25, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Among my (minor) reasons for not staying on active duty in the Navy in ’99 was sheer contempt for the then-CiC.
It’s great if people can see past the nitwit the people put in charge, but I have to sympathize with those who can’t.

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I R A Darth Aggie November 25, 2009 at 2:49 pm

I dunno, risking life and limb in a war that the CinC doesn’t fully support doesn’t seem to be the best risk to take. Especially if it seems like he’s going to putz around for a while, declare victory and go home.

As opposed to staying put, and finishing the Taliban and al Queda. That’s worth doing.

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Peter November 25, 2009 at 4:29 pm

Oh, sure. All those young men and women should reenlist. There is nothing quite so satisfying as being awarded a court martial for capturing the scumbag who murdered four Americans plus countless Iraqis. All because this scumbag got a split lip, only discovered hours after said scumbag had been turned over to Iraqis.

Please Sir, may I have another? Personally, I’m with Beck. It’s time to let the lefties defend the country.

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Little Miss Attila November 25, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Yeah. Point taken. But I don’t want the military weakened too much before 2012.

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AnonymousDrivel November 25, 2009 at 8:28 pm

“But I don’t want the military weakened too much before 2012.”

Me neither, of course, but I’m not in a position to step in since I wouldn’t (if opportunity arose) serve under this CIC either. I sure wouldn’t ask another to continue to fill the breach when this CIC’s intent cannot be trusted.

Those serving must willingly follow a commander who we know lets politics trump everything. Sorry, but you don’t place your life in the hands of someone you don’t/can’t trust. This is an ugly but logical truth right now.

Beck’s point seems tragically valid.

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Peter November 27, 2009 at 1:00 am

I might note that I got injured rather badly while in the Service, in 1967, before I knew that the US Government had no intention of winning that war.

A lot of very close friends have their names on a black graniite wall in Washington, DC. Fifty-eight thousand of my generation died for nothing. We died because we trusted the government. And you want to trust this bunch with the lives of our young men and women? As far as I’m concerned every guy in uniform ought to fall in for sick call tomorrow complaining about back problems and psychological woes, anything to keep them from going outside the wire.

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Joy McCann November 27, 2009 at 1:35 am

Yeah. But there are people there right now, like Cassandra’s husband, who are already in danger.

I don’t have a solution, but the next three years are going to feel more like a decade.

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John November 27, 2009 at 5:04 am

The military is going to be weakened by Obama far and away more than by anything Glenn Beck says. He just threw the Navy’s best of its best under the bus. That is going to have consequences.

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