Sadly, generals need to know how to play politics and kill the enemy. Especially when the boss is a civilian elected by the people that military is defending.
From what I understand McChrystal’s ROE were a potentially bigger problem…

You’re not only supposed to not say it out loud, saying it out loud is against the law. McChrystal may be falling on his sword, but Rolling Stone? He had to know that, regardless of the truth, they would do their best to protect the President and make Stan look petty and incompetent. There is no such thing as “off the record” with Rolling Stone if you are military, Republilcan, or both. they really don’t care about “burning a source” in that situation.

McChrystal’s comments are all rather obvious (although his liking of Hillary seems a bit odd) but McChrystal is not supposed to say stuff like this in public. Truman put up with a lot of BS before he canned McArthur. My guess is Obama is a bit more thin skinned.

Simply dumb on the General’s part. He should resign now.

I think the general knew exactly what he was doing – you don’t rise to that level without being politically savvy. He KNEW this was career suicide. To me, this indicates how dire the situation is in Afghanistan, and the lengths to which the General was willing to go to reveal it and hopefully get some improvements in US policy towards Afghanistan.

I am unsurprised that the focus is on McChrystal on not on his criticisms. Compare and contrast how everyone reacted to Gen. Shinseki’s criticisms of Bush – he was a great whistle blower and a hero, while McChrystal is being treated like a rube.

Unlike MacArthur, I don’t think McChrystal is just going to fade away into retirement. If they’re dumb enough to request his resignation, he’ll write one up – and then go out and see how badly he can burn the 0bots. Different times produce different men, and somehow I don’t think McChrystal is going to sit around in retirement placidly ignoring the slime Obama’s minions are surely preparing for him. He’s going to take some people down with him, I’m sure.

Isn’t McChrystal the idiotic rules of engagement guy? Maybe his staff wants him gone and is stirring up trouble with the administration to help make that happen.

McChrystal’s got to go.

It doesn’t matter whether some of his criticisms are right — if you don’t feel that you can serve your president, you write this stuff in a letter of resignation.

Truman fired Patton _and_ MacArthur.

Obama needs to fire McChrystal.

No President, right or wrong, can afford to tolerate this kind of behavior from a general, right or wrong. McChrystal needs to be sacked and Obama needs to do it.

McChrystal’s “OMG sorry sorry sorry…” routine is even more shameful. If you’re going to blow your career to Tell It Like It Is, don’t go whining about the consequences.

Maybe everyone calling for McChrystal’s firing should take a breath. If you actually read the article, the inflammatory comments in the article are being attributed to UNNAMED AIDS, and NOT to McChrystal:

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/has-anyone-including-mcchrystal.html

Doug MacArthur didn’t whine.

If you actually read the article, the inflammatory comments in the article are being attributed to UNNAMED AIDS, and NOT to McChrystal

There’s a line the The Patriot Stinky, that’s relevant here. It’s the one where General Lord Cornwallis rebukes Tavington: “You serve me and the way you serve reflects upon me!”

McChrystal’s done.

I got called a traitor for saying that he was stupid for making these remarks.

He violated the military code of ethics. He didn’t go quite as far as to qualify for dishonorable discharge, but he went far enough. Even if it were his aides that said the worst of it, he allowed them to talk.

There are some that only concentrating on the fact that they agree with what he said, instead of the rules he broke when he said it.