"DON'T GIVE ME NO BAD NEWS!"

General McChrystal, the commanding officer in Afghanistan, made a public statement that if the US didn't send more troops to Afghanistan, then we risk losing. Now he is being attacked for saying this publicly. Of course, he had asked the President for the troops months before, and since then had not heard from the President once and no troops were promised. Generals speak publicly all the time. They have freedom of speech too!

President Obama is Commander in Chief of the military. He is also saying that General McChrystal should have gone through "chain of command"! Shouldn't the General in charge of the war be able to talk directly to the Commander in Chief who has ultimate responsibility for the war?

I'm of the opinion that the General probably did have an ulterior motive by making these public comments, and that was to light a fire under a complacent President! Our soldiers are fighting and dying in Afghanistan. This is not a tea party gone awry, its a war!

President Obama has been too busy promoting his own political agenda, that his interest in Afghanistan appears to have been nil! He has remained silent about what he is actually going to do about Afghanistan, except to say that we will not leave Afghanistan. Then, Mr President, are we going to stay until we are defeated? Eight soldiers were killed just this last weekend!

The President is now having a meeting with lawmakers. He is more interested in not losing his political support in Congress than he is with protecting our troops. The Afghanistan war has been undersourced for years and now there is a resurgence of the Taliban who are emboldened by the weakness and indecision of this President.

We have a President who apparently doesn't know what to do and doesn't want to listen to the general he appointed to oversee the war. Is he going to have Congressional bureaucrats tell him how to run the wars and not the military personnel on the ground in Afghanistan? In the meantime our young soldiers are fighting and dying.