http://www.examiner.com/article/truth-of-what-retired-military-leaders-think-of-obama-mistrust-is-frighteningJack Dennis
December 1, 2014
4:01 AM MST
A stunning number of retired U.S. military leaders were not surprised when Barack Obama announced that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would be stepping down from his Obama cabinet last week. The announcement confirmed their expectations that the president’s distrust of the military has caused him to go to the “extreme levels of micromanaging from the White House,” said one Army general on Saturday, now retired in Texas, who wishes to remain anonymous.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and U.S. President Barack Obama sit in a meeting with military senior leadership at the Pentagon on October 8, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia. Obama met with the military leaders for an update on the battle against ISIS.
“Obama has shown his stripes and is dangerously suspicious of the Pentagon,” revealed the general, who keeps close ties with current and former military leaders nationally. “Most of my colleagues are just hoping all the damage being planned is not completed before his time runs out on his term.”
“It’s not just the army,” noted the general. “All branches are worried because Obama, when he finally makes up his mind about something, gets his advice from Gen. (Martin) Dempsey (Joints Chiefs of Staff Chairman), Susan Rice, John Kerry and Denis McDonough.”
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