Thanks for the pdf. Reading it now. It did not take long to realize this started out as a hit piece. First paragraph.
Thanks for posting. It’s really a cluster***k.
Thanks for that link. I haven’t finsihed it yet...but this is a backhanded hit piece. And I’m not convinced of the author statement of McChrystal of having voted for Obama, either. There’s just too many self-serving subtleties and no so subtle phrases in there. It’s unfortunate for the General...he’s in the War..and I don’t begrudge an offhand reference or several thrown towards this Administration. But as the title suggest regarding McChrystals enemies..it wasn’t complete. McChrystal needs to add the press to his enemies’ list.
Even though he had voted for Obama, McChrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect. The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office, when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as the Tank. According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked “uncomfortable and intimidated” by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn’t go much better. “It was a 10-minute photo op,” says an adviser to McChrystal. “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his fucking war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.”
I have just read my first, and I hope, my last article in Rolling Stone magazine.
What was McChrystal thinking??????
The author says he had three lengthy interviews with McC, and spent a month “around the general.”
Thank you very much for posting that link.
We live in remarkable times. We have in the Oval Office a Kenyan Clown who is apparently not even eligible to serve in that office, and whole circus of clowns in the administration.
We have an aggressive general, in command of our currently hottest hot spot, who apparently has lost whatever respect he might have had for that usurper.
Well, I don't know what to make of this. Will we see the general stand up or back down? The public spotlight is harshly focused on this, and it is possible that we will see dramatic (or at least melodramatic) end to this situation.
My own guess is that the Kenyan Clown ends up firing the general. Whether this is couched as a resignation or as a job termination, I have no idea.