Posted on 06/22/2010 1:25:38 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Time author on CNN stated a WH source told him that McChrystal has submitted his resignation, but Obama has not yet accepted it.
Beat me to it. Enjoy your pension, General.
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.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDU3YmRhMzcyZWM5NjA4NmNhZTg2MTY4MzRmYmIzMjA=
Can’t wait for his first post resignation interview! That’s going to be a *big* get! Hope it’s on FNC.
I hope so!
I agree. He beat Obama with the resignation. Good!
Obama will come out looking much worse than McChrystal. That’s what matters. I feel like I am seeing Obama’s presidency (how I hate typing those words!) crumble before my eyes! Beautiful sight!
Duncan Boothby RESIGNS: McChrystal Aide Steps Down In Wake Of Rolling Stone Piece
Duncan Boothby, a “senior media aide” to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has resigned in the wake of an explosive Rolling Stone expose that features McChrystal’s staff openly criticizing key members of the Obama administration.
The Washington Post reported that Boothby, a civilian press aide, “was heavily involved in arranging access for journalist Michael Hastings to McChrystal and his staff this year so Hastings could write the profile, titled ‘The Runaway General.’”
Methinks McChristal wanted out. He also may have seen the writing on the wall regarding his future. This whole thing is becoming Vietnam Redux with politicians running the military strategy and short term thinking for political purposes.
All depends on where he goes... If he does Keith and/or Rachel we are doomed, lol.
No he can’t. He’s still a General after he resigns. Now if he resigns his commission and forfeit all his retirement then he will truly be free to speak.
Having said that, it’s unlikely he would be punished for speaking out as a retired general.
Yup...
Of course, this is Obama we're talking about, so you never really know.
No rational President would want this, anyway.
McChrystal was be fully aware of the consequences of openly criticizing his CIC.
However this came down, it was McChrystal who orchestrated it.
What's wrong Barry does McChrystal have your butt over a Chicago mud hole? Barry is Screeeeeerred that he may publicly say how stupid his your war rules are that gets our troops killed after his retirement.
Tomorrow, McChrystal should let it be known that he wants his extra 30 to 40 thousand troops and change his asinine ROEs.
If Joe Klein told me the sky is blue, I’d go outside to verify it.
Reports of the meeting seem like too many sh't faced sophomores.
It’s what he needed to do.
calling Barry’s bluff..........If Barry accepts it, then who can he find that will want that job? If Barry doesn’t accept, he looks like the weak tit he is. No win for Oilbama, just like gulf spill, he will come out coated in crud.
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