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The Admiral Retires
Admiral Mike Mullen’s exit from the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes clear how clueless he was all along.
It is one thing to attack Pakistan’s political will in battling the Taliban and jihadist-driven terrorism (not always the same thing), but quite another to rant specifically against Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Admiral Mike Mullen, the retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should have learned by now the difference between the arcane world of Pakistan’s covert affairs and that of the politics of its government.
Mike Mullen chose to use one of his last public appearances as head of the JCS to lambast the ISI for “using the Haqqani network as its veritable arm.” He then tied ISI’s connections to the Haqqani as choosing “to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy.” What’s new about that, Admiral? Not only has U.S. and UK intelligence known for years about the in-depth relationship between the Haqqani clan operations against Kabul’s government and its U.S./NATO benefactors, but this delicate and dangerous dance has been accepted by all sides as the modus operandi of covert warfare along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
The rules of covert cooperation and conflict are quite different from what occurs in the diplomatic and conventional military world. It appears to have shocked Adm. Mullen that ISI, a working ally of the U.S. and many other Western intelligence services, would support the activities — or at least protect the activities — of segments of the Haqqani network that recently planned and performed attacks on targets such as the American embassy in Kabul, as well as NATO and Afghan government facilities.
What about the history since the days of the British Raj in India did he not understand when it came to the clandestine world of South Asia? More specifically, how has he missed the manner in which duplicity has been the accepted mode of collaboration with “imperial powers” venturing into the region? And when pressed, wouldn’t any Pakistani intelligence officer conveniently insist that its historic operational lessons were learned from the British?
American and British intelligence has known for years that ISI not only made payments (often with funds gained from the CIA) to the Haqqani, but also shared information with their contacts in the insurgent leadership. Any covert operator worth his salt would also accept the fact that ISI undercover officers accompanied Haqqani clan members on some of their raids. Of course the admiral didn’t know that. Ranking staff officers are always protected from the more unseemly aspect of the intelligence operations from which they demand so much.
The reality is that the Haqqani network of related clans does not have to depend on their Pakistani brethren. Afghani fighters’ lineage goes back long before the British set foot in their mountains in the 19th century. As the saying goes in the world of special operations, “They die well, when they have to!” The other thing appropriate not only to the Haqqani but to other clans on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border (wherever that’s deemed to be today) is that they rarely, if ever, forget their mission. And that mission is now, as it always has been, to rid their region of all foreign influences and military presence — and bring home as much treasure as possible.
The natural thing at this stage of a long-running and costly intervention is to ask why we are there. Without so stating it, that appears to be what Adm. Mullen was doing. During his entire tenure as chairman of the JCS, Mike Mullen has been the good military and political “soldier.” He has protected the presidency from disagreements emanating from the military, and protected the military from presidential disagreements over combat and strategic policy. In any case, the chairman always justified why we continued to battle after so many years in the Afghan/Pakistan arena.
Having reached the end of his tenure and about to retire to civilian life, an exhausted and frustrated Mike Mullen had had about enough of the falseness and double-dealing that is the deadly game of military/political affairs in the Afghan/Pakistan theater. Perhaps not the most diplomatic of exits, but apparently personally satisfying. And anyhow who expects even a retiring JCS chairman to suggest it’s time either to launch another major offensive or get the hell out of the country?
America’s top staff officer can afford the luxury of retirement while leaving the scene to the still battling covert operations wallahs. That’s the way it always has been throughout South Asia. There are no crisp, clean uniforms and shining medals for these warriors. Have a pleasant retirement, Admiral; the war will go on, as always — duplicitous and deadly. And others, the faceless ones, will fight it.
The Haqqani will be punished, and in a different way so will ISI. No one needed the Admiral to spur them on in that regard. He never learned that in South Asia the best weapon is a smile — and a garote!
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George H. Wittman writes a weekly column on international affairs for The American Spectator online. He was the founding chairman of the National Institute for Public Policy.
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Michael Tomlinson| 9.30.11 @ 6:54AM
"Admiral Mike Mullen's exit from the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes clear how clueless he was all along." AMEN!!!
Mullens, who replaced a real Warrior General Peter Pace (USMC), because Gates wanted to appease Democrats in Congress was just another example of the failure of Robert Gates as SECDEF.
Gates and Mullens will be remembered for one "triumph" the gaying of the US military at the expense of victory in the war against Muslim imperialism/jihadism/terrorism.
Pelligrino| 9.30.11 @ 12:03PM
Thank you. I have to agree in full. To great bafflement in a time where one would think that serial deployments would "harden" our troops, no, we see the continued watering-down, weakening, efeminization of our military ranks.
Mike Mullen aided this. Women on subs. Open gays who have already lied through actions -- failing the integrity tests. Allowing gays brings Animal House to the platoon, company and squadron.
Any junior leader can already tell you that in the age of "I, me, my, mine" selfish narcicism, the junior leader is banging his head daily against the wall trying to make basic military unit functions actually (with band-aids) work.
Our generals and top admirals are such PC swine. George Casey was the same.
We are a weaker military and at a weaker national posture due to Mike Mullen.
Occam's Tool| 9.30.11 @ 1:06PM
Mullen was a politcal Admiral, not a fighting one.
Look at his medals: not one for combat service.
And look at his parents: "The eldest of five children of Hollywood press agent Jack Mullen and his wife Jane,[2] who worked as an assistant to Jimmy Durante."
Good bye, idiot. You almost got me killed.
Tony| 9.30.11 @ 9:52PM
The Peoples Liberation Army of China does not allow gays and trannies to serve in the PLA. When they invade, we will know why.
btims| 9.30.11 @ 7:09AM
Good-bye, you politcal hack! Mullen - was a diversity obsessed, Islam-loving tool. Nothing more.
CalMark| 9.30.11 @ 5:03PM
Wow. Well said. Nothing to add.
aj| 10.3.11 @ 6:46PM
Simple comparison:
Adm Mike Mullen vs LtCol Allan West.
Mullen rose to 4 stars. West (in Congress now) was forced to retire for being too much the warrior. That seems to be the pattern in depraved and dying societies.
Chalkdust| 9.30.11 @ 7:43AM
It's a sad fact of life that the only way to rise to the rank of Admiral in our beloved Navy is being; clueless, liberal and accommodating to the democrats. Fair winds and following seas to another jellyfish.
TennesseeVolunteer| 9.30.11 @ 7:49AM
Interesting how a lot of leaders of stepping away from their positions...Gatres, Mullen, Lamar Alexander from a Senate post?
What is it they are running away from? What do they know that we don't? What do they see coming?
In a time when our country is in it's greatest crisis...they are all quitting or stepping back behind the curtain....Hmmmmm?
canuckistani| 9.30.11 @ 10:08AM
It is a necessary cleansing after the military, once again, has been used as a chess piece in the neocon farce.
When RR cut and ran from Lebanon, he was on to something. When the Reds cut and ran from Afghanistan, they were on to something: let the Mohammedans kill eachother and get the Muslim civil war going. Israel can defend itself and they know very well what Muslims think of eachother, much less infidels. India the same.
Get our oil requirements below 20% from the ME and we can walk from this inanity. Get a deal done with Russia and isolate Chavez further, and lastly corner the Libyan oil with loan guarantess for reconstruction. It is time the fat bastards in the gulf to sit up and pay attention to their failings.
But it will take leadership - and not another navy aristocrat with a manicure.
Bob K.| 9.30.11 @ 8:58PM
Libyan Oil will always go to Europe.
Dick Nome| 10.1.11 @ 9:10PM
So true. Even if we got all of Libya's oil (why would we want it??) it would be insignificant. We by the most of our crude from Canada and Mexico.
Frank Drackman| 9.30.11 @ 7:55AM
Whats with a Navy Admiral wearing camo fatigues??? WHEN TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS!?!?!?!?
When I served with the Marines, you only war Camis if you served with a Combat unit, and even then on Fridays the Batallion Commander usually directed that the dress uniform would be worn.
Unless you were assigned to the rifle range or fixing a tank.
Only Navy dudes who wore Camis were Corpse-men.
Maybe the SEALs did, didn't see any of them at Camp Lejeune.
Even the CBs didn't wear camo, they still had those 1960's versions like Gomer Pyle wore.
Can't wait for Mullens last day, so he can come out of the closet.
Damn Homo
Frank
maximumrandb| 9.30.11 @ 9:14AM
My AF flying unit in AZ in the late seventies was allowed to wear flight suits only on days you actually flew; otherwise standard blues.
RJ| 9.30.11 @ 9:29AM
If you pull up some videos of Mullen on televison being interviewed you will note his tilted head, his body posture of retreat, his "get me out of here" demeanor, while his words offer up the WHouse line, nothing more. He was a puppet, is a puppet, and will be a puppet. Camo clothes is just one outfit this puppet is told to wear when ordered to "do your show" for others.
A passive aggressive punk, nothing more!
cali| 9.30.11 @ 11:37PM
Wanna bet that this tool also voted for Obama?
WJ| 9.30.11 @ 4:21PM
When I was with the Marines, all sorts of MOSs wore camis. Clerks, truck drivers, etc. and infantrymen like myself, all work camis.
Still, wearing them while testifying in front of Congress was ridiculous.
CalMark| 9.30.11 @ 5:12PM
Right after 9/11, the two-star Navy Unit Commander at U.S. Strategic Command near Omaha expended a tremendous amount of effort (with the War on Terrorism going on in the background) on a VERY important matter: his (unsuccessful) bid to get all Navy STRATCOM personnel permanently into cammies. For office work. To show that "we're all warriors."
Mullen and most other modern-day generals and admirals couldn't fight their way out of a wet, torn paper bag. They compensate by demonstrating "warrior-ness" in meaningless, laughably pathetic ways.
J.C.Eaton| 9.30.11 @ 8:59PM
Everything Nathan R. Jessup was without the charisma or the guts.
CLINTON| 9.30.11 @ 8:15AM
Maybe Obama was wearing cammies, because he wanted to hide the stain from Obama.
CLINTON| 9.30.11 @ 8:16AM
Oops! Maybe Mullens was wearing cammies, because he wanted to hide the stain from Obama. Though I'm sure Obama "briefs" himself when the boys aren't around for a "briefing."
Richard Baker| 9.30.11 @ 9:07AM
Mullen typifies the political officers who infest the modern military. The likes of a Patton, Grant, Eisenhower, or Puller wouldn't make it to O-3 in the present day. Instead we are burdened by the likes of Haig, Powell, Turner, and others of their ilk who are consummate politicians but not much else. God help the US from these uniform wearing politicians.
maximumrandb| 9.30.11 @ 9:16AM
Haig: Doug Haig of WWI notoriety; or Alexander Haig of the Reagan White House? Neither were particularly good.
CalMark| 9.30.11 @ 5:16PM
Throughout my nine-year career, my superiors repeatedly said that "George Patton is an inappropriate role model for a present-day officer."
I guess so. In today's terms, he did lots of terrible things: he knew who the enemy was and pulled no punches talking about them, didn't give a hoot about political correctness and above all--gasp! the horrors!--fought to win.
abdullah shabazz| 9.30.11 @ 9:12AM
Mullen was a great admiral.
He excelled in that essential skill of American military officers: Brown-nosing. Sir. Down here, it smells like roses, sir.
Your boss want wars, you give him wars. Your boss wants gays, you optimize the gay-count. Your boss wants the military doing abortions, abortion is your core mission. Your boss wants green energy, its solar powered submairines.
Well done, Admiral.
John Navratil| 9.30.11 @ 9:37AM
"solar powered submarines". LOL
Pelligrino| 9.30.11 @ 12:16PM
Aha! I knew it. That is what that company that bilked us taxpayers....uh...what's their name, uh, Solyndra, right? Now we know; that's what they were up to: Sun-powered submerged vessels.
Mr. Shabazz: Your assessment is spot on. You have, in just a few lines, shared what the core values are (from the top) in our present-day military.
Please don't forget the important statistic: The very first active duty (or reserve/guard) unit to have a woman in this role/post!
Never mind that we are not grooming hard core warriors with genuine selfless values and mental toughness. Anyone view what basic trainees do or look like after the "grueling??!!" boot camp are over?
Will Dempsey reverse our demise? Does he have a spine?
elmo| 9.30.11 @ 9:12AM
Mullens and most of the recent military leadership should all resign in disgrace. From pro-gay, pro-islam, limited battle rules, they all deserve to live in infamy. I wish Patton could come and kick some liberal military leadership asses.
Tony| 9.30.11 @ 10:13PM
All the Flag Officers caved right in on DADT. During the Clinton era, they threatened to walk on him and we got the compromise-DADT. But whith a Chairman like Mullen, the white flag went right up. Political hacks the entire lot of them. Not a warfighter in the bunch of the Beltway Flag Officers.
Pelligrino| 9.30.11 @ 11:29PM
Sadly, yes, The whole US Senate 11th hour December 2010 vote (while Americans were paying less attention and preparing for Christmas) to end DADT would have FAILED if Petraeus, McChrystal (even though already retired) or Dempsey had said, "No way! Not on my watch. Not in my Army."
They did not. So the trend toward useless adolsescents in a hollow force will continue in the Dempsy tenure?
Surely Gen. Dempsy cannot be a stalwart warrior ethic core values, no-nonsense leader if Obama and Panetta offer him the the job?
Tony| 10.1.11 @ 8:41AM
Marine Commandant Gen Amos went from worried the distraction of gays serving may get Marines killed in combat to (5 days later) being on board lock step with the rest of the lot. We are in serious trouble and the hits keep coming. As a nearly 30 year vet who comes from a long line of military in my family I have already told my nephew to not join and my son who is on his second tour in Afghanistan to think about leaving after his enlistment is up. I have never been so shocked as to what we are turning into. Morale is bottoming out, our officers are nothing more than yes men and senior enlisted bury their heads in the sand waiting for an up tick in the economy so they can bail out all the while politics and social agenda's erode the very foundation of this institution.
Prester John| 10.1.11 @ 4:42PM
I am retired Army and my Army reservist son is also on a second tour to Afghanistan (the first was as a DOD civilian). When he gets back I will everything I can to get him to get out as soon as possible.
While there are a number of reasons, number one is what is happening in the military that I spent 22 years of my life in.
It truly is a shame, a disgrace, and extremely dangerous.
And as the man I am suporting for President (Herman Cain) says, "Stupid people are ruining America".
ACM| 10.2.11 @ 10:12PM
Yes, Tony, you make a good point: Many are still in the ranks due to the economy. These guys can read newspapers and know the stories of long unmployment lines, layoffs, companies going bust, etc.
This also bodes quite ill for our military; we should never want guys in the ranks (particularly the more senior ones) just because of financial reasons.
Yet this is what we have. We used to call them "guys who are just there marking time." But they are far more detrimental than just being fallow.
Thank you: It is amazing how lightning fast that Marine Corps general did an about face on his stance/statements.
What is with these star-wearing perverts?
Ted| 9.30.11 @ 9:49AM
Without a doubt the worst Chairman of the JCS ever. The worst and most destructive.
Negro X| 9.30.11 @ 9:57AM
I worked for mullen at one time, he is a hack, his claim to fame is pushing homosexuality and bogus diversity on the military. He was bitch slapped several time by china and did nothing. later loser.
9thID| 9.30.11 @ 11:38AM
I consider Mullen directly responsible for the Ft. Hood shootings and the poster child for the gay military - WikiLeaks traitor Bradley Manning. In regards to Mullen and Gates, I take comfort in knowing that there is no statute of limitations for treason...
Occam's Tool| 9.30.11 @ 1:09PM
I had accepted a job at Fort Hood as a PSYCHIATRIST before I got my current job offer---this accounts for my jaundiced view of the Admiral. This Jewish shrink would have been murdered if the Great White North hadn't come calling.
Mullen=worthless asshole.
BobS| 10.1.11 @ 6:39AM
You are one self absorbed asshole. Doesn't matter the others died just matters you din't.
bobmontgomery| 9.30.11 @ 10:31AM
C-c-c-can't we all just get along? If you think PC and feel-good liberalism haven't infected every fiber of our society, consider that this is the same JCS chairman who said that not only would repeal of DADT not harm the military, but would indeed *make it a better fighting force*....make it a better fighting force.....Oh, yes, precious, you are so into it, aren't you, sweetie? When, or if, adults are returned to their rightful positions at, for example, the Oval Office, Treasury, State, the Pentagon, the journalism profession, and the leadership of the Republican Party, the wisdom of the people will prevail.
al| 9.30.11 @ 10:37AM
I guess allowing a certain "acceptable" number of Americans soldiers in order to maintain the "falseness and double-dealing that is the deadly game of military/political affairs in the Afghan/Pakistan theater" is OK then, because "[T]hat's the way it always has been throughout South Asia."
You want to kill the messenger? Go right ahead. But Mullen was spot on.
Beau Blotz| 9.30.11 @ 11:41AM
Mullen is to the military as Huntsman is to the POTUS campiaign. A butt kissing weenie.
JP| 9.30.11 @ 10:58AM
It's a crap shoot once an officer gets promoted beyond O-5. Politics, sychophancy, and general butt kissing are in order. And it is a rare thing for our military to produce outstanding combat leaders. There are exceptions (Sherman, Chesty Puller, George Patton, and Admiral Nimitz); but, by and large our officer corps is the product of the Beltway Class. Just think what kind of senior officers we would have if Pelosi, and Reid ran Congress not for 4 years, but for 12 years.
In many ways, the Progressives have had thier way with the DOD. Credentials is all the rage. Our generals and admirals have advanced degrees from the Ivy League, and some have been Rhode Scholars. But, thier thinking and vocabulary are all the same. Granted, advanced study is not a bad thing; we don't want to replicate the mistakes of the Prussians, in that thier General Staff Officers had very narrow technical points of view. But, are ours any better? Our senoir officers display an appalling amount of group think on everything from gays in the military to Isreal to Muslim "outreach". This kind of group think leads to incompetence and eventually lost wars.
Pelligrino| 9.30.11 @ 12:26PM
Your assessment of crap-shoot needs to be lowered to the O-4 rank. At that point an officer thinks that he (or she) has "arrived." Has made it.
And he is at the tipping point where he's calculating mightily every week his chances of making it to 20 years -- the goal line for all those retirement bennies.
We need to fundamentally change our military. No pensions. None.
This is THE national security issue. No other looms larger.
Everyone can save for the future. Military people are still quite young in their 30's or 40's when they get out and have still decades that they need to be working.
Taxpayers have already paid them well enough, factoring in years of military schooling, 2-3 week education classes, paid vacation days (more than any civilians see), etc.
Until we remove all the perks that are wrongly bestowed on military "retirees" (retired at only 42 years old?), our forces will be replete with those who are not there for the core values. They are not there to serve.
They hang on after the 8 or 9 year mark (when their hearts and minds are not in it) because:
1. They are scared out of their pants as to what they will do in "real life" (civilian life)
2. And they see the gravy train of bennies offered up to those who serve 20 or more years.
That is our national security disaster. The guys are the top like Mullen just personify this at a much, much higher level.
Erling| 9.30.11 @ 3:11PM
You're a clown. By the way, how many year-long deployments have you completed?
CalMark| 9.30.11 @ 5:33PM
He's not a clown; he's right. In a nine year career, including garden spots like Korea and the Gulf, I met a shocking number of miserable, mission-damaging time-servers sticking around for one reason: the pension. They amused themselves by back-stabbing for promotions (better base pay for the pension, you see).
Years after getting out, I still get nasty, condescending lectures from everybody: "What's wrong with you?!? You left halfway to a PENSION!" ("Pension" being uttered in the same tones as "Holy Grail.") "Just 11 more years,"--JUST 11 more years, significantly longer than I'd already served--"and you'd have a pension!" People are too pension-obsessed, and that includes military members.
In my opinion, a Roth/401K arrangement would be in order: the government gives you a certain percentage of base pay, the account being tax-free for life, and you get automatic access to 100% of it on the day you'd be eligible to retire.
You'd lose a lot of pension hounds when everybody gets something and retirement becomes--nothing more, nothing less--keeping your military rank for life.
Erling| 10.1.11 @ 8:02AM
Two Iraq tours (so far), JRTC, Bosnia, moving every two years- or less...my family and I are weary after many years of being "pension hounds."
P.S. Thanks for your service defending the Nation, but the cause of the debt crisis is not a handful of Americans who honorably served in the armed forces for 20 years.
Tony| 9.30.11 @ 10:08PM
Sorry it won't work in the all volunteer force concept. Having worked on rentention projects in the Marine Corps, one of the draw backs to elemenating a vested retirement will a loss of SNCO and officer leadership at the E7-O5 ranks. Why stick around beyond 10 years. You will get what you pay for. But I'm afraid the 401K plan will be shoved down the throats of our future warfighters. Retention will greatly suffer and that means a DRAFT.
Pelligrino| 9.30.11 @ 11:44PM
Why stick around after 10 years of military service?
One sticks around because it is in your personal DNA to serve, stay fit, work hard, train, and be around other like-minded, focused, inspiring people.
It is because you believe in the mission.
This is exactly what we do not have right now.
I can take you anywere -- any unit, squadron, post, or base - and show you countless 30 something aged people who are not there for the right reasons.
And that jeopardizes everything: Mission, efficiency, readiness, future conflicts, and RETENTION of the young 20 - 25 year olds who see the falseness in their superiors, superiors who spend more mental time on self preservation, financial planning, safe assignments, brownnosing, and military retirement goals.
If you spent any time in retention, the number one reenlistment killer among the high-flying kids we WANT TO RETAIN is that they see crystal clear the dingbats above them in their chains of command.
They want no part of idiocy.
Yes, this is our national security nightmare.
We have to remove the financial incentives to continue military service. The overriding personal incentive must be: Because you want to serve.
Occam's Tool| 9.30.11 @ 1:10PM
Mullen was a graduate of Harvard Business School
Quartermaster| 9.30.11 @ 6:28PM
As I recall, the most popular masters degree among ossifers (they are pretty much required to get past Major/LCDR, and have to be underway, normally, to make O-4) is the MBA. It's also about the worst masters an ossifer can take as almost none of it has any application to military leadership. It's just a ticket punch.
Dick Nome| 10.1.11 @ 9:04PM
These days, MBAs are like a**holes, everybody has one.
carnot| 9.30.11 @ 12:18PM
what is it with Admirals who step into the CJCS role? they always come up wanting.
Frank Drackman| 9.30.11 @ 12:20PM
Ironic that under Mullens Watch the Navy got rid of the Uniforms the Homos would like the best...
The "Cracker Jacks" umm you know, like the dude on the Cracker Jack box.
And those hideous Bell Bottoms that only a Real Heterosexual Man could wear with a "Straight" face.
And most bizarre were the Womens uniforms, where they had a choice between a pair of sexy white heels that Angelina Jolie could wear to a Hollywood Premier and not look out of place..
and an ugly pair of black Oxfords like Granny on "Beverly Hillbillies" wore...
Frank
Dean | 9.30.11 @ 1:36PM
Naval officers are technocrats by nature and training. Most have engineering or hard science degrees, and have low regard for the humanities. The technical background can get an officer through his early career, but once he reaches flag ranks a sound knowledge of subjects such as history, political science, and economics is essential for addressing the strategic issues that a flag officer will deal with. This lack of strategic vision has been a feature of naval leadership throughout its history.
DANSHANTEAL| 9.30.11 @ 2:49PM
YOU'RE RIGHT ON. THE ISI CREATED THE TALIBAN SO THEY COULD DOMINATE AFGHANISTAN. BEST TO COME HOME AND CLOSE THE CHAPTER.
ABNCP| 9.30.11 @ 3:28PM
Powell, Casey, Jones, Mullens, etc. A sad parade of Senior Officers the Suits in D.C. have subjected our Armed Forces to. And yet, thank God, we still have the most professional, effective, dangerous and well trained Military, Naval and Air Force on the planet today.
If we finally get someone to run them that will not reduce their fighting capacity with stupid ROE's, inane regulations or P.C. requirements,
those forces will become more effective, lose less lives, and cost the country fewer dollars when we have to and we will continue to have to, clean up problems that face this country from anyone or any country that wants to challange us.
Tony| 9.30.11 @ 9:59PM
Mullen, the worst JCS ever. Bull Halsey and Chester Nimitz must be turning over in their graves. Thanks for absolutley nothing Admiral, you have done nothing but neuter this once great military while the real threat in the Chinese and rising Russians continues to grow.
redpatch| 9.30.11 @ 11:27PM
Its a shame that Mullen replaced Gen Pace. It would be nice if they made Gen James Mattis Chairman JCS. At least we have one bad ass 4 star who isn't a pc officer.
Nice| 10.1.11 @ 4:55AM
The Peoples Liberation Army of China does not allow gays and trannies to serve in the PLA. When they invade, we will know why.
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Dr. X| 10.1.11 @ 1:06PM
Increasingly, I think the only way out of this national cluster___k is to have a man like General Franco step in and fix it.
rdman| 10.1.11 @ 4:21PM
Mullen is lucky he wasn't in my Naval outfit... he wouldn't have made it past Ltjg!!
Daves| 10.1.11 @ 8:12PM
Admirals don't do so well at Chairs of the Joint Chiefs. Mullen is even less than the Navy average. We are lucky nothing came to blows while he was Chair.
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rendite| 10.3.11 @ 11:52AM
Mikey Mullen retires just 2 weeks after the DADT repeal is a done deal. Athough voted on in the US Senate in December last, it needed the "rubber stamp" beaureacratic Pentagon-DOD committee approval. Something like that (a process designed to take the sting and blame away from the idiots in Washington, a process to dilute the issue and confuse).
Two weeks ago "gays all aboard" became official U.S. military policy. This is my understanding of this policy p-r-o-c-e-s-s.
Interesting timing that. Mullen retires just after? Just a coincidence?
Marc Jeric| 10.3.11 @ 4:55PM
Our new military has no chance to win another war. 1) We have placed women and homosexuals into the fughting ranks; 2) We have recruited Muslims and drug addicts; 3) We have imposed new engagement rules that prohibit our soldiers to defend themselves from terrorists when the latter are hiding behind "civilians"; 4) We have imposed new rules for recruiting based on inclusiveness, multiculturalism, political correctness, diversity, affirmative action (i.e., reverse discrimination)...