Well, General McChrystal knew it was coming. You can't dis the President publicly, sign your name to it and not expect some fall out.
From my perspective, he and his aides were apparently honest with the Rolling Stone reporter and told him what they really thought about Obama and his minions.
It wasn't good.
The comments reflected the pure frustration of the General and his team at Obama's dithering, indecisiveness and, frankly idiocy when it comes to war. He and his administration have decimated America's intelligence community and publicly released every document in the archives that could help the terrorists. (No terrorists. I forgot.)
Remember, it took President Obama months to even meet with the General. Nothing urgent about soldiers dying in Afghanistan. And, to give Obama a break, he was busy bankrupting the country. That takes time and energy.
After the meeting, it took more months for McCyrystal's request for additional troops to be - sort of - granted.
Obama has proven himself to be a boob when it comes to economics, capitalism, basic civility toward allied countries and speaking without a teleprompter. He also has a habit of commenting and making speeches on things about which he knows nothing. Two examples would be the police presence at one of his belligerent professor friend's homes. Another would be the Arizona immigration law, which he clearly hadn't read before flying the people's plane around the country and talking about what a racist piece of legislation it was because the police would be profiling innocent Hispanics.
McChrystal likes Karzai; Obama doesn't. The ambassador and the General aren't getting along. McChrystal doesn't want a date certain for withdrawal of troops - at least not an announced date - because he feels it puts his men in danger.
Some think the General's comments during the extended - nearly a month - long interview, were subversive, but I don't see it that way.
I do understand that he and his aides should have perhaps shielded their feelings about the incompetence of Obama and his administration, or done it through unidentified sources as other generals have done with other presidents in the past. But give the man credit for not being sneaky.
Obama isn't one to take criticism of any kind well. I'm just guessing here, but I'd say, from what I've grown to understand of the General, that he didn't say anything to Rolling Stone about Obama that he didn't say to the President's face during their rare and brief meetings.
After all, we aren't fighting a war in Afghanistan. We simply have a situation.
And I'm pretty sure it was a Presbyterian who set up that car bomb in Times Square. Certainly not a Muslim.
The amusing thing to me in all of this is that Obama is acting as though the General is the only one who thinks the President doesn't know what he's doing.
Someone, quick, read the man his poll numbers.
Of course, when he hears them, he'll turn it around. It isn't because we don't like his policies. I't s because we're all too stupid to understand what he's doing.
I'm sorry the troops won't have McChrystal to watch their backs, particularly because he seems to be the only one who will tell it like it is and recognizes that the enemy isn't just in Afghanistan, but in Washington.
Thank you for your service, General.
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