Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, June 25, 2010 6:07:26 PM
Once of the first and immediate responses I made at the first breaking story that Gen. McChrystal was being 'recalled' to Washington by Prez. Obama was that this was a huge public relations victory for Al Qaeda and the Taliban. At every story and then here on BirdsEyeView at Townhall dot com, I kept making the same observation that this is going to turn into a PR victory for the 'bad guys'. I rarely do an "I told you so.", but I'm going to slap myself on the back, point at photo of Obama and say "I told you so!" Here's the proof:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/06/24/2010-06-24_taliban_endorses_general_petraeus_say_new_us_afghanistan_war_chief_not_smarter_t.html
It seems the evildoers were just biding their time to see how the
Rolling Stone flap would play out. Now that
President Obama
has sacked his top war boss in
Afghanistan,
Army
Gen. Stanley
McChrystal, and replaced him with
Iraq surge hero
Gen. David
Petraeus, the
Taliban has
finally weighed in.
Their verdict? The new boss is the same as the
old boss. And Petraeus is a wimp, they claimed Thursday.
"(Petraeus)
is not smarter than McChrystal," Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Ahmed Yusuf
said in a statement.
McChrystal's firing by Obama, by the way, was "divine victory," the
Taliban mouthpiece added.
Now, among uneducated, mountain goat, sheep herders and valley poppy growers, who make up much of the rank n' file of the Taliban, do you think this going to look? To a people that understand and respect power, not debate as the mark of governing. That Obama took a great warrior off the battle field for saying something in a magazine?? To them, they'll ask, "Did he insult the Obama's family?" No. Well then...what's the big deal? That's the mentality of the Afghan, and that's what the Taliban understand as well.
As B.E.V. has pointed out, there will be a succession of repercussion's in Afghanistan from this, many we won't hear or see about, as well as within the U.S. Military ranks.