Obama & Libs vs. Gen. McChrystal & Army Officers

More proof of how thin-skinned Barack Hussein Obama is, and how his Administration attacks anyone who dares criticize him.

Melanie Morgan links to a New York Post piece which details efforts by the Administration to publicly rebuke Gen. McChrystal for giving the President a message he didn't want to hear.

Now, according to today's Washington ComPost, several Army officers are criticizing the liberal Democrat's and Administration's rebuke of Gen. McChrystal.

"It was definitely a hand slap," one Army officer said of the statement last weekend by national security adviser James L. Jones, a retired Marine general, that military officials should pass advice to President Obama through their chain of command. The Army officer, like others attending the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the politically sensitive issue.

A number of senior Army officers compared McChrystal to Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army chief of staff who warned before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 that it would take several hundred thousand troops to secure the country -- advice that was dismissed as "wildly off the mark" by then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz.

...Some officers observed that political leaders must commit the resources needed to ulfill their goals. If not, they said, the goals must change. "Gen. McChrystal has given an assessment of what the military strategy should be to achieve the political objective," said an Army officer who served in Afghanistan under McChrystal and his predecessor, Gen. David D. McKiernan, who was abruptly relieved in May by the Pentagon leadership.

"It comes down to: How much am I willing to commit, and if I can't contribute what the commander needs, do I have to change my objective? It happens time and time again with senior military commanders and civilian leaders."

Unfortunately, this is what happens, not only when you have a Commander in Chief like Obama who looks at everything through the lens of what's politically expedient for him, but who deep down has contempt for those who wear the uniform..