President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of the US Army’s Afghanistan Commander after comments the decorated General made to Rolling Stone magazine criticizing the President.
The interview, which General Stanley McChrystal and his aides gave to the famous magazine, was critical of nearly ever senior member of the Obama administration, including the President himself. The commander also said that Obama appeared "uncomfortable and intimidated" during his first meeting with the general, and dismissed Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as "Bite Me."
This morning General McChrystal met with the President for 20 minutes after which his dismissal from his post was announced. The general left before a scheduled war meeting about the latest situation in Afghanistan.
Of the General’s comments, Obama said: "It [the interview] undermines the civilian control of the military... and it erodes the trust that is necessary for our team to work together to achieve our objectives in Afghanistan."
Officials described the reaction within the West Wing as immediate anger and certainty that McChrystal be fired, followed by a willingness to hear the counterargument given the importance of the war, its perilous state.
The General is to be replaced by General. David Petraeus, the current Commander of the Army’s important Central Command.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.DennisQ | Jun 24, 2010, 02:47 AM EDT
If McChrystal had turned the war around the way he promised to do, the Rolling Stone article would have been suppressed. Instead of delivering on his promises, McChrystal's situation reports kept getting more and more dismal. Basically, we're losing the war, and Obama blames McChrystal for misleading him about the possibilities. It's all about winning and losing. If you win, you keep your job. If you lose, you don't. When President Lincoln heard complaints about General Grant's nightly drunkenness, he said, "Find out what he's drinking and send a case to the other generals."
1IrishMedic | Jun 23, 2010, 05:59 PM EDT
This man has made several errors the greatest was trying to cover=up the friendly=fire killing of Pat Tillman, the bastard should have been fired for that immediately. His Irish-American heritage is at best weak and to use that to impress us is a disgrace.
GeorgeDillon | Jun 23, 2010, 05:54 PM EDT
On another part of this web site this guy is described as Irish American. What makes him Irish American? Getting drunk in a pseudo-Irish bar called Kitty O Shea's? Obama is much more an Irish-American than this guy!