"YER OUTTA THERE." (Washington Post-Frazer Chronicle)
From the Forward Operating Base, Sharana, Afghanistan comes news that Major General Peter Fuller has been relived of his duties as the top U.S. trainer in charge of Afghanistan security forces. Fuller was fired today, Saturday, November 5 for criticizing President Harmid Karzai. General John R. Allen, commander of overall operations in the country, relieved Fuller for remarks he made in an interview with the fact finding agency, Politico.
I guess the old military motto "Ours is not to question why, ours is just to do and die," is alive and well in the modern military of 2011, it kinda gives me a warm furry feeling all over my body. You know what they say about opinions, "there like ---holes, every body's got one." Guess Fuller was less inclined to "suffer the pain of a gastric upset," and let the air out.
His pontification was not an epic eruption, rather a kind of burp, a quite interview with a state-side news organization which looks for truth wherever it can. General Fuller simply took issue with some of Karzai's statements, calling them "erratic and isolated from reality." Fuller further stated that "he, "Karzai" should poke me in the eye with a needle, you've got to be kidding me.....I'm sorry, we just gave you $11.6 billion and now your telling me 'I really don't care?"
Fuller further explained that "Afghan officials are divorced from reality and unappreciative of the American sacrifice in Afghanistan." "You guys are isolated from reality, the reality is, the world economy is having some significant hiccups."
Was General Fuller talking out of school, absolutely not, he simply was repeating what anybody who knows anything about the Afghan situation knows, that Karzai and his family and friends are profiteering from the war, that the conditions of the country are "mucked up." The statements that Fuller made were the truth, and the removal from his duties shows a silly "wall of silence" that exists in the military services.
Truth from American war zones should be a mandatory rule, short of divulging either military secrets, or where soldiers might be put in harms way. When it comes to the regular tension that has been present over the past several months between the United States and the Afghan government over supplies, equipment and money, I don't know about you, but I want to know all that the law allows.
I personally could care less about the future of General Fuller, his family, or his friends, I only want correct information, especially when it comes to the billions of dollars that are being spent. To my way of thinking, "these cowboys aren't protecting my freedom today, in Afghanistan." The United States is in an untenable situation in the middle east, and it seems as if everybody in the world knows except United States citizens, that the U.S. goal is not peace, but to protect natural resources for our use.
Thank God I don't have a position to lose, I've been called a general ----up, but never simply a general. Speaking the truth in today's "complicated" world can come back to bite you in the butt, so the rest of you generals out there better cover up, or drop and roll, it's a jungle out there.
From the Forward Operating Base, Sharana, Afghanistan comes news that Major General Peter Fuller has been relived of his duties as the top U.S. trainer in charge of Afghanistan security forces. Fuller was fired today, Saturday, November 5 for criticizing President Harmid Karzai. General John R. Allen, commander of overall operations in the country, relieved Fuller for remarks he made in an interview with the fact finding agency, Politico.
I guess the old military motto "Ours is not to question why, ours is just to do and die," is alive and well in the modern military of 2011, it kinda gives me a warm furry feeling all over my body. You know what they say about opinions, "there like ---holes, every body's got one." Guess Fuller was less inclined to "suffer the pain of a gastric upset," and let the air out.
His pontification was not an epic eruption, rather a kind of burp, a quite interview with a state-side news organization which looks for truth wherever it can. General Fuller simply took issue with some of Karzai's statements, calling them "erratic and isolated from reality." Fuller further stated that "he, "Karzai" should poke me in the eye with a needle, you've got to be kidding me.....I'm sorry, we just gave you $11.6 billion and now your telling me 'I really don't care?"
Fuller further explained that "Afghan officials are divorced from reality and unappreciative of the American sacrifice in Afghanistan." "You guys are isolated from reality, the reality is, the world economy is having some significant hiccups."
Was General Fuller talking out of school, absolutely not, he simply was repeating what anybody who knows anything about the Afghan situation knows, that Karzai and his family and friends are profiteering from the war, that the conditions of the country are "mucked up." The statements that Fuller made were the truth, and the removal from his duties shows a silly "wall of silence" that exists in the military services.
Truth from American war zones should be a mandatory rule, short of divulging either military secrets, or where soldiers might be put in harms way. When it comes to the regular tension that has been present over the past several months between the United States and the Afghan government over supplies, equipment and money, I don't know about you, but I want to know all that the law allows.
I personally could care less about the future of General Fuller, his family, or his friends, I only want correct information, especially when it comes to the billions of dollars that are being spent. To my way of thinking, "these cowboys aren't protecting my freedom today, in Afghanistan." The United States is in an untenable situation in the middle east, and it seems as if everybody in the world knows except United States citizens, that the U.S. goal is not peace, but to protect natural resources for our use.
Thank God I don't have a position to lose, I've been called a general ----up, but never simply a general. Speaking the truth in today's "complicated" world can come back to bite you in the butt, so the rest of you generals out there better cover up, or drop and roll, it's a jungle out there.
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