{"id":1195347,"date":"2022-01-06T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195347"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:35:05","slug":"exclusive-fmr-lt-col-stuart-scheller-congress-took-turns-with-their-sound-bites-of-anger-directed-towards-the-generals-none-of-them-has-the-courage-to-challenge-the-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-fmr-lt-col-stuart-scheller-congress-took-turns-with-their-sound-bites-of-anger-directed-towards-the-generals-none-of-them-has-the-courage-to-challenge-the-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Fmr. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller: &#039;Congress Took Turns with Their Sound Bites of Anger Directed Towards the Generals,&#039; &#039;None of Them Has the Courage to Challenge the DOD Budget&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">62<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-fmr-lt-col-stuart-scheller-congress-took-turns-with-their-sound-bites-of-anger-directed-towards-the-generals-none-of-them-has-the-courage-to-challenge-the-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Stuart-Scheller-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Elected officials criticized U.S. military leadership without maintaining accountability through challenges to the budget of the Department of Defense (DOD), former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller <a href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\/january-6-historic-media-fail-guest-lt-col-stuart-scheller-on-military-wokification?share=true\">said<\/a> on Thursday\u2019s edition of the <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> with host Alex Marlow.<\/p>\n<p>Scheller was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/stu-scheller-announces-discharge-marine-corps-planned-media-blitz\/\">discharged<\/a> from the Marine Corps after publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/27\/marine-officer-who-questioned-generals-over-afghanistan-is-relieved-of-duty\/\">critiquing<\/a> military leaders\u2019 conduct related to the Biden administration\u2019s stated \u201cwithdrawal\u201d from Afghanistan in a viral video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo one\u2019s been held accountable,\u201d he said. \u201cCongress took turns with their sound bites of anger directed towards the generals, but then nothing happened. The real influence within Congress is the DOD budget, and none of them had the courage to challenge the DOD budget. They approved it unanimously, actually, six days before they all stood in front of the generals and told them how angry they were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt takes someone with actual leadership abilities \u2014 and to understand foreign diplomacy \u2014 to do some of the things that we need to do, and right now, actions have demonstrated that we don\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Corrupt and incompetent military brass are beneficiaries of reflexive praise for the armed forces, Scheller noted. He warned that blind acclaim for the military reduces accountability among its leadership and increases the risk of harm to rank and file servicemembers.<\/p>\n<p>He remarked, \u201cMilitary leaders that should be advising on [operations in Afghanistan] absolutely can be held accountable, and it just goes back to [how] we\u2019ve been lionizing the military, and people want to show appreciation, and criticizing them almost feels un-American. But the truth is, we need criticism on those general officers more than we ever have before to help the junior servicemember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Failures in Afghanistan resemble those in Vietnam, Scheller assessed, which he attributed to the four-star combatant commanders, the National Security Council, secretary of defense, and President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAfter Vietnam \u2014 let\u2019s just use that as a parallel \u2014 we lost, but we still won almost every tactical battle, but we lost at the operational strategic level, but after Vietnam, we allowed the general officers \u2014 who none of them were held accountable \u2013 we allowed them to say, \u2018Well, it was the draft. There was a drug problem. We need to increase the standards. We need to clean up the service. We need to change our tactics,\u2019 and they essentially focused on the tactical level, even though that\u2019s not where the failure occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same thing is happening right now with the GWOT generation,\u201d he added. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018Hey, we need to mature the force. We need to look at distributor operations. We need to do all these different things on a tactical level.\u2019 That\u2019s not where we\u2019re failing. We need to hold general officers accountable at the operational level. We need to hold the secretary of defense \u2014 there\u2019s a long list of them [who] need to be held accountable \u2014 for the failures in the link between the strategic operational to the tactical level, and so that, to me, is the fundamental problem, and how you do that is you hold general officers accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Breitbart News Daily&nbsp;<\/em>podcast is&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">available<\/a>&nbsp;for listening and download via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials criticized U.S. military leadership without maintaining accountability through challenges to the budget of the Department of Defense (DOD), former Lt. 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