Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times - June 23, 2010
President Obama said Wednesday he had accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, bringing to an ignominious end the storied but sometimes controversial career of one of the country’s top soldiers.
Mr. Obama, who angrily summoned Gen. McChrystal to Washington after the general and several aides disparaged senior members of the administration in a series of interviews with Rolling Stone magazine, said he had accepted the resignation “with considerable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military and for our country.”
The president said he was nominating Gen. David H. Petraeus, the current head of U.S. Central Command, to take over from Gen. McChrystal “which will allow us to maintain the momentum and leadership that we need to succeed.”
Go and watch the movie: War Machine. It was the basic story of McChrystal and his ‘period/era’ in Afghanistan. It was a satire-type movie but you have to laugh over the characterization of McChrystal. A number of individuals have made the comment that since the war-period of the 1990s (Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan)....that the Army has brought a number of leaders up who simply weren’t qualified for the rank.