Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said Saturday there is a "crisis in national political leadership" and that partisanship is preventing a strategy that would help the U.S. take on the threat of Islamic extremism. Sanchez, who spent a tumultuous year as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, made the remarks at a veterans summit sponsored by U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, a Corpus Christi Democrat. About 200 veterans and their families attended the event. They gave Sanchez a standing ovation and mobbed him afterward for autographs.
"My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership," Sanchez said. "When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?"
I actually find some of these reports sad. Men who spend their lives in the Military and achieve the three stars on their lapels are not the kind of people who like to be saying this kind of thing on a podium. They are people who are comforted by the rules of conduct in the Military system and believe strongly in blind discipline. They aren’t the kind of people who got to that high level by arguing with their superiors.
They don’t respect our leaders or what they’ve done. It would be very hard for any of us to spend our lives in an organization designed for one task only to then stand up and say – what we’re doing is wrong. I have great sympathy for them for being put in this situation, and respect for their courage in speaking out…
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