Posted on 06/22/2010 4:07:18 AM PDT by kristinn
NBC News' Savannah Guthrie reports this morning that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is being called to Washington for a meeting at the White House tomorrow in the wake of a Rolling Stone article that has exposed McChrystal and his staff as mockingly disrespectful of their civilian overseers, including their commander-in-chief President Barack Obama.
Guthrie posted at Twitter:
McChrystal has been ordered to the Sit Rom tomorrow to explain his stmts criticizing admin officials to Rolling Stone to POTUS in person 15 minutes ago via UberTwitter
Guthrie added: "McChrystal has been calling around town apologizing to officials."
The Atlantic reported late last night that McChrystal had been called by numerous top officials last night:
Within hours after today's Rolling Stone story broke, McChrystal was called by the White House, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were not happy.
The Atlantic also notes that McChrystal never completely had the trust of the Obama administration:
Even though McChrystal voted for Obama and told him so during their first meeting, he sensed that a number of senior White House aides didn't really believe that the former commander of the military's special missions unit during the Bush-Cheney years was suddenly on their side. National Security Adviser James Jones, who is a bit of cipher to McChrystal's team, may or may not have been one of these aides. No one in the West Wing bought all that liberal internet chatter about JSOC's alleged crimes -- but no one really didn't buy it, either.
As the earlier poster said, 0bama an idiot, irrelevant. Troops are in danger, the mission a failure, the elected and subsequent appointees don't know their *a* from a hole in the ground? Fine -- but you take off the uniform before you say it publicly. In fact, if it is of such import that he feels it necessary to say it in public, he should have made a show of resigning, immediate press conference to lay out the reasons for doing so. The headlines that would garner would be more helpful to the troops then what's going on now.
Especially from some MAN named STANLEY!!!!!
A very confused Oedipus complex kicking in;)
I continue to run into people who are unaware that members of the House may not be on the floor of the Senate without Senate-member escort, nor can they be in the Senate press gallery without same, vice versa. By-invitation is big-time in Washington, separation of powers engenders protocol.
I've had to clarify that bit about the SOTU message mandate not being a speech given in person at time or two my own self, though usually it's some family dinner. ;)
We've been doing that for many decades now....It's starting to bite us in the butt...Hard.
Our own political civilian overseers have become corrupt and made us weak at home and abroad....
Those in D.C. have more allegiance to illegal aliens, than the American people. (New tag line?)
I'd say things need to change really fast, or we resign as world cop, and turn in the badge.
and it’s a good thing that he hasn’t violated the UCMJ.
Exactly what comments of McChrystal do you believe were in violation of Article 88?
What I do not understand is why a US general would be even talking with Rolling Stone. Seems crazy.
A cry for help maybe?
It’s not a strawman. Obama is in dereliction of his Constitutional duty to protect the US. He is making decisions for purely domestic political reasons that are getting American servicemembers killed and that are endangering this nation. McCrystal is doing his duty by speaking up.
I respect our servicemembers and their williness to sacrifice life and career to do their Constitutional duty. Kind of shocked that you don’t share that view.
Yes, I was being sarcastic. Sorry I didn’t include a /sarc tag. Late night post and forgot the first rule of internet sarcasm - always use a /sarc tag!
I’m sorry, I thought you were making an argument that if Obama ever did anything openly against the consitution or Americans the military would stand idly by in the name of “doing what we’re told.”
McChrystal’s opinions may be true and need to be said but he went about it the wrong way (and I’m pretty sure it was heresay from aides and not him in the article). I didn’t vote for Obama and I will vote against him in 2012. I will not, however, speak out against him while I have the uniform on and am representing the military.
That's kind of what Rush said today. Alerting people to the fact that Obama has no idea what he is doing. We live in truly bizarre times when the general in charge of the whole war effort needs to go through a left wing entertainment rag to be heard.
Hope he doesn't end up court marshaled. If you want to complain in public, resign.
He will not, he can’t. Firing him would require him to acknowledge the seriousness nature of the sentiment.
UPDATE: Tuesday morning, just hours after reports of the profile first surfaced, McChrystal released the following statement:
“I extend my sincerest apology for this profile. It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened. Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. What is reflected in this article falls far short of that standard. I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome.”
Yup, none really by McChrystal that rise to any level in violation of the UCMJ.
A British paper is saying that Gen. McChrystal has already submitted his resignation.
Great tagline Grampa D
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