McChrystal is right on the money about this. He was very well being set up to be a scapegoat for the failure of a plan that wasn’t his. He’s made it very clear what needs to be done to win now and if Obama and Co. decide to disregard his advice, they will have to own their mistakes. On the other hand, if they listen to Jow Biden and take his advice and it pays off, they can have all the glory. I think they know better though.
As Quinn would say, this is the fallacy of the false middle. Neither strategy will work. McChrystal is turning the Afghanistan population off huge.
But at LEAST he is ONE, count them, ONE General who is standing up to the djinn publicly, and for all that I disagree with what HIS strategy is, we have learned an enormous amount of information from his outspokeness.
We MUST NOT let our Troops down. It is unthinkable.