What Sort of Punishment Will Gen. Stanley McChrystal Enjoy For Slamming Obama?
The four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who’s leading the troops in Afghanistan, is heading to Washington to explain to President Obama why he all up and dissed him in a Rolling Stone story. Sec. Gates and Adm. Mullen aren’t thrilled about the piece either, since McChrystal is quoted slamming Obama, Biden, and a bunch of senior officials, which is sort of a no-no?
Among the pullquotes McChrystal already regrets is one his aide delivered about Obama having dinner with “some French minister. It’s fucking gay.” And then there’s the one describing Obama as “uncomfortable and intimidated” when meeting with military officials his first week in office.
It’s one thing to disagree with your commander-in-chief in private. But in the pages of a national magazine? And, anecdotally speaking, how much trust should we have in a general who doesn’t know one iota about staying out of trouble?
This is another one of those situations where we have to decide what’s more important… is he doing the job he was appointed to do, and if so, does that mean he loses all free speech rights?
Read the article from Rolling Stone, I’m more concerned for the ground troops than what he may have said about Obama, Biden and Gates.
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@Brutus: Actually, it is American. In America, the president is the head of the military. Thus when a general goes to the press to bash said president it is called insubordination. General MacArthur lost his job for making far less offensive criticisms of Harry Truman.
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@SSCHIEFRSHA: I don’t disagree with what McChrystal said for the most part, but he’s clearly in the wrong here and deserves to be fired. If you start allowing people in the military to publicly trash their superiors, the whole chain of command collapses.
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@Baxter: C’mon, McChrystal’s only fault was that he thought he could loosen up with RS magazine, a magazine he didn’t know also has highly politicized agenda. Right now he’s a rock star and must be treated as such. Give him whatever he feels he needs necessary for the accomplishment of the desired outcome to the Muslim Question. Let the man fight the war with a clear mind without the bureaucratic nonsense of government. It goes against the laws of warfare to interfere with the General[in ANYWAY]–Sun Tzu will be most displeased.
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The joker is gone–offered his resignation. :)
“…a magazine he didn’t know also has highly politicized agenda.”
And that would make him a fucking moron in addition to being guilty of insubordination. Good riddance if this guy is running things in that quagmire. If he doesn’t know the political slants of well-established magazines in the US, he’s supposed to be successfully heading counter-insurgency? Oy vey.
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Punishment? I believe it is called forced retirement.