Jules Crittenden on General McChrystal threatening to resign: “This one is all Obama. And it is not a crisis of generalship. It is a crisis of presidential leadership.”

If only Obama had some actual, first-hand military experience instead of the palpable disdain he has for the military:

They [Obama and Rahm Emmanuel] could always preemptively fire him, I suppose. But firing two generals who tell you that you need more, including the guy you hired to tell you how to do it with less, starts to look like a crisis. A grossly mishandled one. This is not exactly a Lincolnian crisis of generalship or a Truman-MacArthur one, either. Nor, contrary to all the Vietnam tooth-gnashing, is this LBJ and Westmoreland. It isn’t even a Bush wartime leadership crisis. Bush always played to win. He just needed to figure out how and find the right general for the job.

OTHERS:

Black Five:

But he also bluntly points out that if the request is denied, failure will result. In that case, he has no moral, ethical or professional requirement to simply salute and go down with the ship. In fact, his professional ethics require him to stand up and refuse to participate in something he thinks will not only fail but get his soldiers needlessly killed while doing so.

Wizbang:

I can’t imagine how frustrating this must be for General McChrystal and his troops. They were charged with a winning a war and defeating the Taliban and by extension al Qaeda but are being undermined by their own Commander in Chief’s ignorance, vacillation, and leftist loyalties.

Sister Toldjah:

How reassuring it must have been for our men and women in harm’s way in Afghanistan to read/hear/watch about how – in the midst of the declining state of affairs there – our President, their CIC, appeared on David Letterman last night to talk about, in addition to ObamaCare, the fact that he was “black before the election.” How comforting I’m sure it was this morning for them to read and/or hear/watch our President, their CIC, speak so boldly at the UN on the need for American to be “determined to act” on climate change.

But on the issue of Afghanistan? I hear what you hear: Crickets chirping.

Neptunus Lex:

…a forward commander cannot entirely commit himself to that decision, nor convince his leadership to support his strategy then he owes it to everyone to step aside.

After all, there will always be another man found willing to fiddle while Afghanistan burns.

Lots more chatter at Memeorandum, where the typical Lefty response is “fire him.”