Why America Needs Optimistic Generals
ML Cavanaugh | September 6, 2018
Why America Needs Optimistic Generals
It’s not very often that a US commander in Afghanistan sets off a social media firestorm. But recently, Gen. John “Mick†Nicholson in his final press conference as outgoing US commander in Afghanistan, was accused of wearing rose-colored glasses or blinders. Others took out their frustration on him for the interminable nature of America’s long war in Afghanistan. One voice even went so far as to indict America’s senior military leadership and wrote that the “indefatigable optimism of [America’s] generals is a national liability.â€
The logic is that too much military optimism is bad for the country’s good—American commanders are smiling and whistling while the strategic ship of state sinks deeper and deeper into the muck.
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