{"id":1195,"date":"2009-09-20T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2009-09-20T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:39:38","slug":"its_usually_better_to_let_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Usually Better To Let The People With Experience Make The Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/59517-levin-obama-not-mcchrystal-gets-final-say-on-afghanistan\">The Hill<\/a> is reporting today that Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union with John King,&#8221; stated that General Stanley McChrystal should not have the final say on U.S. strategy going forward in Afghanistan.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;He&#8217;s just in the chain of command, and there&#8217;s higher-ups,&#8221; Levin<br \/>\nsaid. &#8220;This is not a situation like General Petraeus in Iraq, when the<br \/>\npresident basically said, whatever the commander in Iraq wants, he&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoing to get.&#8221;<br \/><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He might have mentioned that General Petraeus was successful in Iraq and George Bush was glad he listened to him.&nbsp; The last war American politicians ran was Viet Nam and that didn&#8217;t turn out too well.<\/p>\n<p>We have a totally inexperienced President and a tried and tested General.&nbsp; I think I would rather follow the advice of the General.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill is reporting today that Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union with John King,&#8221; stated that General Stanley McChrystal should not have the final say on U.S. strategy going forward in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}