On air: Was Obama right to sack Gen. McChrystal?
| 17:30 UK time, Wednesday, 23 June 2010
UPDATE: A senior White House official has confirmed that Gen. McChrystal has been fired over his magazine. Also, a senior administration official tells the ´óÏó´«Ã½ that " it's accurate that the President has chosen General Petraeus to replace General McChrystal as the commander of ISAF and lead our forces in Afghanistan."
KRUPA'S ORIGINAL POST:
General Stanley McChrystal today as he meets President Obama to explain his criticism of leading officials in Rolling Stone Magazine.
admires the General for speaking up, a quality which 'may prove to be his downfall.'
But feels that as an army general, he should stop babbling and start winning,
'In America, generals with runaway egos and mouths tend to become gone-away generals. It happened famously during the Korean War, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur defied his boss, President Harry Truman, once too often. MacArthur came home to parades, but history judged Truman the winner, along with the principle that generals answer to elected, civilian leaders.'
In the writer agrees that President Obama needs to put the General in his place, but adds that we shouldn't blow what's happened out of proportion
Should he be sacked like or do you agree with Ìý²ú±ð±ô´Ç·É?
'General McChrystal, after all, never disobeyed his chain of command; nor has he refused to carry out a lawful order. To the contrary: he has been working 18-to-20 hour days to try and win the war. And to that end, he spoke the truth about Afghanistan. Bully for him. We need more like him.'
have a say in the politics of war? Does it matter what your Generals think or say, if their military strategy is right? Is this a diversion from the war?
GayPatriot tweeted:
Is this a case of President Obama trying to reassert his authority after a period of public criticism? And if you're in the military are you fighting for your General or your President / Prime Minister?IfÌýBush were still president and McChrystal made the same comments he just made but about the Republican not the Democrat, he'd be hailed as the teller of truth, rather than a disrespectful subordinate.
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