In an interview with Newsweek, Gen. McChrystal said he wouldn’t resign if the President rejects his request for more troops. If he were really trying to dictate policy, he’d have given a different answer. But we don’t think Gen. McChrystal should stay to implement a Biden war plan either. No commander in uniform should ask his soldiers to die for a strategy he doesn’t think is winnable—or for a President who lets his advisers and party blame a general for their own lack of political nerve.
Good column from the Wall Street Journal
October 12th, 2009 at 2:48 AM
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October 8th, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I know, me too. And I don’t think the troops (or the Generals) have a lot of faith in him either.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
It’s disgusting the treatment Gen. McChrystal is getting. He has the interest of his troops in mind while Obama and company figure out how to lose this war.
I get sick just thinking that Obama is the “Commander in Chief” of the U.S. Military. To my knowledge the guy wasn’t even a boy scout.