General Stanley McChrystal Bails on Afghanistan Strategy
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington in the wake of a magazine article that quotes him and aides criticizing senior Obama administration officials and diplomats.
Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologized over the article in Rolling Stone.
In it, Gen McChrystal is quoted as saying he feels betrayed by US ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry.
The general's aides mock Vice-President Joe Biden and say he is "disappointed" with President Barack Obama.
Gen McChrystal says he felt "betrayed" by the US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry during the White House debate on troop requests for Afghanistan.
Gen McChrystal suggests Mr Eikenberry was using a leaked internal memo that questioned the troop requests as a way to protect himself from future criticism over the deployment. "Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, 'I told you so'."
Gen McChrystal also appears to joke in response to a question about the vice-president.
"Are you asking about Vice-President Biden?" McChrystal asks. "Who's that?"
An aide then says: "Biden? Did you say: Bite Me?"
http://current.com/news/92504092_general-stanley-mcchrystal-bails-on-afghanistan...
Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologized over the article in Rolling Stone.
In it, Gen McChrystal is quoted as saying he feels betrayed by US ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry.
The general's aides mock Vice-President Joe Biden and say he is "disappointed" with President Barack Obama.
Gen McChrystal says he felt "betrayed" by the US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry during the White House debate on troop requests for Afghanistan.
Gen McChrystal suggests Mr Eikenberry was using a leaked internal memo that questioned the troop requests as a way to protect himself from future criticism over the deployment. "Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, 'I told you so'."
Gen McChrystal also appears to joke in response to a question about the vice-president.
"Are you asking about Vice-President Biden?" McChrystal asks. "Who's that?"
An aide then says: "Biden? Did you say: Bite Me?"
http://current.com/news/92504092_general-stanley-mcchrystal-bails-on-afghanistan...
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You know things are imploding fast when the generals jump ship and things start to descend into a fast game of finger-pointing.
If this wasn't a well-paid fully volunteer army the next thing you'd see in Afghanistan would be the start of full-scale fragging of commanding officers.
That's why the Pentagon got so fully behind that all volunteer army after their "education" in the Vietnam of trying to wage an ill-advised un-winnable criminal war with soldiers who might be in a position to question what was going on. - 1 year ago
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