McChrystal Apologizes for Remarks in Profile, Summoned to White House
The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan is being called to the White House for a face-to-face meeting with President Obama after issuing an apology Tuesday for an interview in which he described the president as unprepared for their first meeting.
The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan is being called to the White House for a face-to-face meeting with President Obama after issuing an apology Tuesday for an interview in which he described the president as unprepared for their first meeting.
In the article in this week's issue of Rolling Stone, Gen. Stanley McChrystal also said he felt betrayed and blind-sided by his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry.
McChrystal's comments are reverberating through Washington and the Pentagon after the magazine depicted him as a lone wolf on the outs with many important figures in the Obama administration.
It characterized him as unable to convince some of his own soldiers that his strategy can win the nation's longest-running war and dejected that the president didn't know about his commendable military record.
In Kabul on Tuesday, McChrystal issued a statement saying: "I extend my sincerest apology for this profile. It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened."
McChrystal has been called to the White House Situation Room on Wednesday to explain his comments to the magazine directly to the president, a senior administration official told Fox News. Normally, he would appear on a conference call for a regular strategy session.
McChrystal also called Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen late Monday to apologize. Mullen told the general he was deeply disappointed, according to a senior military official at the Pentagon.
The article says that although McChrystal voted for Obama, the two failed to connect from the start. Obama called McChrystal on the carpet last fall for speaking too bluntly about his desire for more troops.
"I found that time painful," McChrystal said in the article, on newsstands Friday. "I was selling an unsellable position."....................>>>>................>>>>....................http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....afghan-war-strategy/
...yeah, I really don't care. Nothing that this idiot will do will win that war. You can't win a war with gentleness. you win it with brutal and overwhelming force. Something the entire general staff, and the political class has never understood since liberal humanism has infected our national will to survive.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
...yeah, I really don't care. Nothing that this idiot will do will win that war. You can't win a war with gentleness. you win it with brutal and overwhelming force. Something the entire general staff, and the political class has never understood since liberal humanism has infected our national will to survive.
This is not our war to win!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"you win it (war) with brutal and overwhelming force." Really???
There were none more brutal or ruthless in Afghanistan than the Russian Army. The USSR had short supply lines, unlimited air power, air superiority, hundreds of thousands of troops... against a primitive force on horseback, everything they needed to "win" in Afghanistan. They used torture, and brutal punishment on their enemies... yet they got their butts kicked.
As with George W Bush's Oil war in Iraq... the Invasion (shock & awe) is the easy part. Leaving is the difficult part.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Box you left out the part where the United States was helping them with weapons, support and advisers and they turned around and stabbed us in the back. Maybe we should just get out of the whole area and let a nuclear war break out between Iran and Israel and that part of the world will be an uninhabited desert for the next 100 years.
""Maybe we should just get out of the whole area and let a nuclear war break out between Iran and Israel and that part of the world will be an uninhabited desert for the next 100 years.""
It appears that you don't understand the result of a nuclear war... The entire world will be involved, not just some "uninhabited desert".
As far as the Afghans 'stabbing us in the back"... Afghans see very little difference between the Russians invading their country and the Americans invading their country... so do I.
Our objective in Afghanistan was to destroy BinLaden and AlQaeda... a mission GWB abandoned to go chase Iraqi Oil.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Grocho Marxist is too stupid to understand geo-political importance. He boils it down to "oil" so that all the other idiot democraps from SUNY schools can understand it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Bush invaded Iraq with dreams of a 'democracy' in the Middle East. A democracy that would be so grateful that the USA invaded it's country, killed it's president, killed much of it's sons in the Iraqi military, destroyed it's infrastructure, dismantled it's government, killed it's citizens... Their gratitude for this invasion would allow the USA to manage and control it's oil wealth.
As with most things GWB attempted... he failed. A failed Economy, No WMD's, No Nukes, No Chemical Weapons Labs, No AlQaeda, No BinLaden,... AND No Iraqi OIL!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Bush is an EX president - instead of dwelling on the past - how about stepping into the future and taking responsibility - rather than looking where to place blame all the time? Oh wait, that's the Democrooks mantra.
Shadow, You mentioned the Iranian threat... There WAS a large opposing force in the middle east that kept Iran in check. IRAQ!
But GWB, in his infinite lack of foresight, decided to eliminate the only balancing force to Iran in the Middle East.
GWB is gone, but his legacy lives on... Or should that be "dies on".
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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