No US Military Consensus on Syria
09.12.2013 at 11:34pm
No Military Consensus on Syria by Michael O’Hanlon, Washington Post.
Retired Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, in his Sept. 6 commentary, “A war the Pentagon doesn’t want” [Washington Forum], makes some valid points about the challenges the Obama administration has encountered -o and, at times, created – in its approach to Syria. He may be right that this is a war that most officers in the military, like most Americans, don’t want. But greater scrutiny should be given to his suggestion of a widespread consensus within military ranks that the president’s handling of this crisis has been incompetent…
