Just as an example of how a REAL general handled a similar situation MacAuthor met Truman half way for his butt chewing over Korea. I little island in the Pacific, he did not scurry to D.C. like a little boy. He made Truman get on a plane too. I wish we had generals like that now.
Probably no place between D.C. and Afghanistan had a suitable supply of ice cream/snow cones available-along with a worthy golf course-that could induce the Chump in Chief to go deliver McChrystal's azz-chewing.