06-27-2010, 12:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2010, 12:51 AM by Occhidiangela.)
If I may be so bold ... it appears from the RS article that the General and his senior staff permitted considerable loose talk in a mocking and derogatory tone regarding the Vice President of the United States. You may wish to refer to UCMJ article 88 and see why he was obliged, as were his senior staff, not to permit this.
It appears that the General put the president in a position where the president had to fire him, or put up with civilian officials being openly mocked by officers serving. The facts may be other than reported by Rolling Stone, but this isn't the first time someone got relieved for loose talk.
Pete made a very important point: the general had a star, hell, he had four, and if he didn't grok how words and politics play into his assignment, then he had no business being in that assignment.
All said and done, this sucks, as I had a stong positive reaction to General McChrystal. (He was in charge of the JSOTF when I was over in the hot and nasty part of the world. I have mostly good things to say about how that was run, a certain Task Force excepted).
Short answer: Self inflicted wound.
It appears that the General put the president in a position where the president had to fire him, or put up with civilian officials being openly mocked by officers serving. The facts may be other than reported by Rolling Stone, but this isn't the first time someone got relieved for loose talk.
Pete made a very important point: the general had a star, hell, he had four, and if he didn't grok how words and politics play into his assignment, then he had no business being in that assignment.
All said and done, this sucks, as I had a stong positive reaction to General McChrystal. (He was in charge of the JSOTF when I was over in the hot and nasty part of the world. I have mostly good things to say about how that was run, a certain Task Force excepted).
Short answer: Self inflicted wound.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete