I just had a thought — it’s a theory that may explain all this. What do you think?
As some said, normally a general would not engage in bad- mouthing his CiC to the press, and McC may have voted for Obama, but he is not so stupid that he doesn’t understand the consequences.
What if McC found out that Obama is about to fire him, make him the scape goat for our troubles in Afghanistan and AFTER he found this out, he decided to engage in a “pre-emptive strike”, giving the RS interview, he at least wanted to tell people what’s going on BEFORE he gets fired.
Then once he said it, he has no other choice, but to apologize, but at least he is not going to go down quietly, not going to fall on his sword to protect Obama.
The more I think about it, the more sense this makes to me.
How about this? There is so much we don’t know. McChrystal is not a stupid man. He had to have known this would be explosive.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2539055/posts
EDITORIAL: Obama’s Vietnam moment—Democrats plan to cut and run in Afghanistan
The Washington Times ^ | June 21, 2010 | Editorial
Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 8:14:15 PM by jazusamo
The White House is clinging to President Obama’s ill-conceived pledge to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, regardless of how the war is going at the time. In dogmatically standing by that pledge, Mr. Obama is virtually guaranteeing he will preside over America’s second lost war.
The issue arose last week during congressional testimony when Central Command commander Gen. David H. Petraeus said that withdrawing from Afghanistan would be “based on conditions” and that “July 2011 is not the date where we race for the exits.” Au contraire, according to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “The July [2011] date, as stated by the president, that’s not moving, that’s not changing,” he said Sunday. “Everybody agreed on that date.”
The scope of the withdrawal is yet to be decided, but according to Mr. Emanuel, the start date is necessary because it has “created a sense of urgency” among the allies to get the job done. Another thing creating a sense of urgency is the significantly degraded security situation in Afghanistan since Mr. Obama set this deadline. Insurgent attacks and coalition casualties are up; the areas of the country in which the Taliban are active have increased; and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is watching the United States with increasing wariness, knowing that soon he will have to face the Taliban alone.
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