[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I’ll have to read it again to see the direct quotes attributed to him.

[Brown Deer]

I’ll have to read it again to see the direct quotes attributed to him.

Again? You never read it or else you would have already known that there were none.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. "Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke," he groans. "I don't even want to open it." He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.

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"I like Karl (Eikenberry), I've known him for years, but they'd never said anything like that to us before," says McChrystal, who adds that he felt "betrayed" by the leak. "Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, 'I told you so.' "

Both of these quotes, directly attributed to McChrystal, are problematic. Combined with all of the "Senior Aide" quotes, they show a disdain for the administration, not just in policy, but for particular people in the chain of command.

It's ironic, because it seems the reporter was trying to create a "liberal warrior" out of McChrystal and ended up trashing the administrations strategy in Afghanistan.