Neil MacDonald about sexual assault in the US military

[Canuck_2]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/10/f-rfa-macdonald-military-sexual-assaults.html

Commanders want to keep this problem all in chain of command, where they deal with it as they see fit, she says. "Anytime a military person is involved in anything, the military tries to go in and assert jurisdiction."

Tellingly, the strongest push for serious change is coming from three U.S. senators, all of them women. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, has actually warned Americans that their daughters might not be safe if they enlist.

But perhaps the defining scandal came last week, when Lt.-Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the head of the Pentagon's sexual assault prevention office, was charged with … sexual assault.

Police say he aggressively groped a woman, a civilian, in an Arlington, Va., parking lot after a night of drinking.

Then, quietly, the Pentagon tried to take over the case from Arlington's civilian authorities. This time, the military brass was firmly rebuffed.

[r3020]

The military under Barack Obama has gone to crap. Zero leadership, all about cover up.

[Canuck_2]

So what about the problems from before Obama?

Were those his fault too?

Your military has been very good about covering up rather than rooting out problems.

Now do you have any comments about Mr MacDonalds article?

[r3020]

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@Canuck_2 wrote:

So what about the problems from before Obama?

Were those his fault too?

Your military has been very good about covering up rather than rooting out problems.

Now do you have any comments about Mr MacDonalds article?

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Has Obama rooted out any problem?

[Canuck_2]

You need to get over your fixation on Obama.

The problems in your military go way back and are embedded in the command and have little to do with whoever is President.

The problems also go beyond sexual assaults.

You command protects their own from all mistakes they make even when they are deliberate 'mistakes'.

Take off your rose coloured glasses and see the whole story.

[r3020]

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@Canuck_2 wrote:

You need to get over your fixation on Obama.

The problems in your military go way back and are embedded in the command and have little to do with whoever is President.

The problems also go beyond sexual assaults.

You command protects their own from all mistakes they make even when they are deliberate 'mistakes'.

Take off your rose coloured glasses and see the whole story.

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Who is in charge?

[Canuck_2]

I know you want to have the 'conmmander in chief' take responsibility for everything but you also know that what happens on a daily basis is far removed from his control except in a very general sense.

There is an attitude of 'we can do no wrong', hide all bad things, ignore or cover up errors, in your armed forces.

It has been going on for many years if the 'commander in chief' is to blame then the blame goes back several decades.

It is a lot like the Catholic church which just moved evil doers and tried to hide the problem rather than correct it.

Eventually the truth does come out and then it can be corrected going forward but it will not correct all the bad things that have been swept under the rug in the past.

It is not just sexual attacks, that is just what is coming out now.

[r3020]

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@Canuck_2 wrote:

I know you want to have the 'conmmander in chief' take responsibility for everything but you also know that what happens on a daily basis is far removed from his control except in a very general sense.

There is an attitude of 'we can do no wrong', hide all bad things, ignore or cover up errors, in your armed forces.

It has been going on for many years if the 'commander in chief' is to blame then the blame goes back several decades.

It is a lot like the Catholic church which just moved evil doers and tried to hide the problem rather than correct it.

Eventually the truth does come out and then it can be corrected going forward but it will not correct all the bad things that have been swept under the rug in the past.

It is not just sexual attacks, that is just what is coming out now.

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Yeah, I have to agree with you, the President is not the man for the job. You are more informed than him. You know about this terrible problem in the military but the President is clueless. He seems to be the most uninformed President in recent memory. He didn't know anything about fast and furious. He didn't know anything about benghazi. He didn't know anything about the IRS targeting Americans because of their beliefs. He didn't know anything about the justice department grabbing the AP's phone records. All he seems to know how to do in campaign, attend $32,000/couple elite fund raisers, vacation, or get onto the golf course. Maybe if he would actually stay in the White House and attend an occasional Pentagon briefing he would know about the war on women inside of the military.

[Canuck_2]

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@r3020 wrote:

Yeah, I have to agree with you, the President is not the man for the job. You are more informed than him. You know about this terrible problem in the military but the President is clueless. He seems to be the most uninformed President in recent memory. He didn't know anything about fast and furious. He didn't know anything about benghazi. He didn't know anything about the IRS targeting Americans because of their beliefs. He didn't know anything about the justice department grabbing the AP's phone records. All he seems to know how to do in campaign, attend $32,000/couple elite fund raisers, vacation, or get onto the golf course. Maybe if he would actually stay in the White House and attend an occasional Pentagon briefing he would know about the war on women inside of the military.

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It will take more than just the President to fix what has been an ongoing problem with your military of sweeping problems under the rug and protecting their own rather than rooting out problem attitudes.

You may not want to look, and your media does not talk about it, but there has been an ongoing system of not punishing members after serious errors/crimes.

It is not new.

[Snooky1953]

You must have REALLY been thrilled from 2000 to 2008 since our president was gone from Washington about 2 times as many days or more than this president!  And start with the lame excuse that he took work to TX with him.  I don't think they burn wood nor use barbed wire fences that need to be mended at the White House!