ASPEN — The highest ranking officer in the U.S. military told an Aspen audience last night that Gen. Stanley McChrystal deserved to be fired for breaking a “sacrosanct” tenet of American democracy.
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he fully supported President Obama’s decision last week to fire his commander in the Afghanistan war. No admiral, general or soldier can disrespect or question the civilian oversight of the military, he said.
“It is a sacred part of who we are, as a country, as a democracy. It is, as far as I’m concerned, sacrosanct,” Mullen said at the opening address of The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Security Forum. He spoke to a capacity crowd of 750 people at the Greenwald Pavilion.
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