Signing On

by digby

Here’s an AP headline from today:

McChrystal supports new strategy, drawdown

Does he have any choice? The last I heard he still reported to the Commander in Chief, but maybe that changed this week and nobody told me.

McChrystal walked a very, very fine line with that London speech, but he didn’t speak out against an established policy and one would hope he wasn’t planning to do so in this case if he didn’t like it. Generals have only one option if they don’t like the policy — they can resign. And if they can’t support it, they should resign. But they don’t get to “sign on” or give public indications of how they feel about it.

I’m afraid that we’ve fetishized the military so much in these last few years that we’ve come to believe it is a branch of government. It isn’t.

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