Posted on 06/22/2010 4:07:18 AM PDT by kristinn
NBC News' Savannah Guthrie reports this morning that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is being called to Washington for a meeting at the White House tomorrow in the wake of a Rolling Stone article that has exposed McChrystal and his staff as mockingly disrespectful of their civilian overseers, including their commander-in-chief President Barack Obama.
Guthrie posted at Twitter:
McChrystal has been ordered to the Sit Rom tomorrow to explain his stmts criticizing admin officials to Rolling Stone to POTUS in person 15 minutes ago via UberTwitter
Guthrie added: "McChrystal has been calling around town apologizing to officials."
The Atlantic reported late last night that McChrystal had been called by numerous top officials last night:
Within hours after today's Rolling Stone story broke, McChrystal was called by the White House, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were not happy.
The Atlantic also notes that McChrystal never completely had the trust of the Obama administration:
Even though McChrystal voted for Obama and told him so during their first meeting, he sensed that a number of senior White House aides didn't really believe that the former commander of the military's special missions unit during the Bush-Cheney years was suddenly on their side. National Security Adviser James Jones, who is a bit of cipher to McChrystal's team, may or may not have been one of these aides. No one in the West Wing bought all that liberal internet chatter about JSOC's alleged crimes -- but no one really didn't buy it, either.
I read somewhere that something like 98% of retired black military folks voted for Oscuma. Sad. Voted for the black guy. No other reason. Black voting for him simply cause he was a brother. No other reason. Threw away all that duty they did in the wars, cold wars, etc., just too vote for him.
Of course not ... he’ll “be allowed to resign”.
Not even close.
One other option:
McChrystal writes his resignation on the plane trip home and delivers it at the security meeting.
WTF is a General doing, giving an interview to a disgusting communist anti American rag like Rolling Stone in the first place? The only thing I can come up with, is that we are well and truly up the creek. We have a communist usurper for a president, and at least one moron general. I suspect leadership in the military is infested with PC careerists.
It stinks of weakness from top to bottom. What do our enemies see, except opportunity, and a timeline?
Nobody is a apolitical...they should not sacrifice good military judgment to carry out poorly formed strategy. Speaking to Rolling Stone was probably not the best idea.
...They are not supposed to have political allegiance to the Pres.
Their allegiance needs to be the constitution. A lot of people sight to the fact that the President can give an unlawful order (as can anyone in the chain of command).
That said, I am not a fan of some of the decisions McChrystal has made (discouraging the use of flack jackets by our troops in civilian populations, for example).
Sounds like he was another Wesley Clark “perfumed prince.”
Enough with the apologies already...are we men or mice!
I worry about the morale of those serving. My daughter has a very close friend who is in Khandahar now and I don’t want him or any others thinking they are in a no-win situation.
LOL then he will be free to run his mouth all he wants.
No virtue in that. Whether or not he votes is his decision. He was making a political statement by revealing that.
Over two thousand comments posted and not a single one shows up?
I'm no fan of McChrystal either.
There seems to be a concerted effort to create a total break-down between the purpose of our military and the destruction of it from this administration. At what point does the old respect for the chain of command have to give way to survival of the mission, survival of military personnel, and survival of the country?
Maybe McChrystal can join forces with Lakin.
I was thinking the very same thing, even McCain was a better choice than this fool.
Lose-lose.
Plus the morale of the troops that hear this stuff can't be particularly good.
“Thats a bit harsh.”
Yes, it is harsh, but what was the guy thinking? He is being used as a tool to subjugate all of us. We ain’t seen harsh yet.
Is that a reference to Gen Colin Powell support of obamma during the election? That was sickening! Maybe Powell will brought back on board with obamma now?
Perhaps you will recall the "7 Generals" that destroyed Rummy and sought to undermine President Bush and the war effort in Iraq.
Here is one article...can't find the ones I'm looking for at the moment and am out of time.
Thanks for posting. It’s really a cluster***k.
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