It’s not every day that a magazine article takes down a four-star general.
The country woke this morning to the news of a profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone with quote after quote of the general and his aides dissing top Obama Administration officials, as well as the president himself. After a day-long media freak-out, McChrystal is set to meet with the president at the White House tomorrow with Robert Gibbs having pointedly left the door open to the general losing his job. All this comes at a time when the Afghan war is not going particularly well.So what did McChrystal say to get in so much trouble? Actually, it was mostly comments by his unnamed aides — dismissing top senators, calling Ambassador Richard Holbrooke “a wounded animal,” and describing McChrystal as unimpressed with Obama’s grasp of the Afghan War. For good measure, McChrystal also mocked Joe Biden on the record, and told Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings he felt “betrayed” by top ambassador Karl Eikenberry.
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