Gen. Stanley McChrystal Resigns

Gen. Stanley McChrystal's interview in Rolling Stone Magazine in 2010 caused him to get fired. In the interview Gen. McChrystal criticized the President and his staff. This is and old act in an old play called Power. This play has been playing all over the world for thousands of years.

Gen McChrystal is a warrior who has probably killed or ordered people killed. He has sycophants at his feet each day as he is chauffeured in a private car and flown in his personal plane.

The perks of a general in no way compare to the perks of the President. However, I can imagine Gen McChrystal thinking of all he has achieved, while demeaning the President as one who has never done anything except be a community organizer.

I'm glad the U.S. military has to answer to civilians. If they did not we would have had a military coup a long time ago. The founders organized the government this way. They knew the lure of power could cause more revolutions.

The founders did not want a standing army that would create the possibility of a military coup. The founders just wanted a voluntary stay at home militia. Instead, we have a military nation within our republic. This military nation grows stronger each day.

When the economy goes in the tank and there are a series of successful terrorist attacks you will see fear in the people and they will yearn for a strong leader. That's how the age old play about Power plays over and over, again and again. When the people's fears grow rampant they will call for Gen McChrystal to restore order and provide them with safety so they can go back to living and practicing the seven deadly sins.

President Eisenhower said in his farewell address to beware of the Military Industrial Complex. The MIC is so powerful President Eisenhower could not say that in his inaugural address. Had he done so he would not have won a second term. Had he said so in his first campaign he would never have become the 34th President of the United States.

Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings" (the fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars or our fate or destiny but in ourselves that we have become underlings or subordinates to Caesar), (Line 139, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act One).

Charles Tolleson