Tuesday, June 22, 2010
One Way Obama Could Save Face . . . [Daniel Foster]
Refuse McChrystal’s resignation. The general is a man of honor, and no idiot. There’s a good chance he’ll show up in Washington with a resignation letter in hand. President Obama could refuse it, and then go to the public and say something like, “our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of judgment like this undermine them. So I told General McChrystal that he must finish his task, and that I would not accept his resignation at this time.”
This might allow Obama to look like the bigger man while having it both ways. He’d avoid adding instability to his command structure at a crucial juncture in the war in Afghanistan, and avoid looking weak by not dismissing an insubordinate general.
The messaging would be: McChrystal knew he goofed up, and came to me with his gun and his badge. But this was my call, and I did what was best for the country.
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Yup...
“There’s a good chance he’ll show up in Washington with a resignation letter in hand. President Obama could refuse it, and then go to the public and say something like, ‘our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of judgment like this undermine them. So I told General McChrystal that he must finish his task, and that I would not accept his resignation at this time.’”
What if Obama doesn’t accept the resignation and McChrystal really doesn’t want to stay on? Is Obama gonna throw him in the stockade?
One Way Obama Could Save Face . . . [Daniel Foster]...
The general is a man of honor, and no idiot....
Obama is a girl of deceit with no honor, and is an idiot.
I think the plan was not fire McChrystal but to publicly castrate him in DC and then send him back to the war as obama’s eunuch. We will see what happens now.
Refuse McChrystal’s resignation. The general is a man of honor, and no idiot. There’s a good chance he’ll show up in Washington with a resignation letter in hand. President Obama could refuse it, and then go to the public and say something like, “our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of judgment like this undermine them. So I told General McChrystal that he must finish his task, and that I would not accept his resignation at this time.”
The the General should counter 'negotiate' again with his previous urgent request for the additional 'surge' troops. That our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of preparation undermine the great sacrificies of our troops and the American people. The addition of these requested troops will therefore allow us to finish this task.