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I am more upset with our leadership.  The generals and the president should have said to the murderous mooslims---Get over it, you people chop off heads and blow each other up!  Get over it and everyone that helped in the murder of innocent U.N. workers will be arrested!   Get over it!  We are not in Afghanistan to make friends but to eliminate our enemies.  Get over it!  Burning a book is nothing!   If you want to move out of the 8th century and be free, we will help.  Grow up!  Get over it!

Tweet this To succeed in Afghanistan, we’ll need the support of the likes of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha. He was the daring tribal sheik in Anbar province whose pivot against al-Qaida in the summer of 2006 began to turn the Iraq War. He marshaled other tribal leaders in what grew into a nationwide anti-al-Qaida movement. Sattar acted knowing that the Americans had his back. “Instead of telling (the Iraqis) that we would leave soon and they must assume responsibility for their own security,” Col. Sean MacFarland, who worked with Sattar, has explained, “we told them that we would stay as long as necessary to defeat the terrorists.” Sattar trusted President George W. Bush, and admired him “for sticking to his principles despite public opinion.” All of this is recounted in the new book on the Anbar revolt, “A Chance in Hell,” by Jim Michaels. As Mark Moyar writes in a review in The Wall Street Journal, it was only by winning the confidence of elites like Sattar - who was ...

If Gen. Stanley McChrystal expressed views in the Rolling Stone article are what he believes then he should resign. By resigning on principal, he can be a voice for the opposition to this government’s direction. If however he meets with the president and lets the president direct his future, his views and beliefs have no weight or merit.