WHY ARE WE PURGING GENERALS?

Less than one month after the 7-hour Islamic terrorist attack of September 22, 2012, on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four high-level U.S. military flag officers had been removed, for one ostensible reason or another. The four are Generals Petraeus, Allen, and Ham, and Admiral Gaouette. (In the U.S. military, flag officers are Coast Guard officers and general officers in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps of such senior rank that they are entitled to fly their own flags to mark where the officer exercises command.